Sub-regional or city/region procurement process

The scale of procurement needs to be sufficient to attract organisations who will see contracts as an opportunity to invest for the long-term delivery of services.  This scale implies moving towards some form of ‘prime contractor’ model, with the whole range of services being tendered, rather than just elements of provision.  It will be up to contractors to identify and negotiate a plausible and effective supply chain of sub-contractors and specialist services and it will be up to funders to manage jointly the outputs they wish to see delivered by all providers for all of the key groups.

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