{"id":75026,"date":"2016-10-14T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6bf17f12695f56f45bf64aed7bb9e65e"},"modified":"2016-10-14T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:30:50","slug":"news-story-launch-of-the-procuring-for-growth-balanced-scorecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75026","title":{"rendered":"News story: Launch of the Procuring for Growth Balanced Scorecard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/procurement-policy-note-0916-procuring-for-growth-balanced-scorecard\">new scorecard system<\/a> has been designed to help ensure that major government procurements have a positive impact on economic growth, as well as achieving best value for the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance, developed by the Crown Commercial Service, introduces a balanced scorecard approach, which government departments should use in designing major works, infrastructure and capital investment procurements where the value is more than \u00a310 million.<\/p>\n<p>The scorecard helps procurers to consider the project requirements and needs, with criteria such as cost balanced against social, economic and environmental considerations.<\/p>\n<p>By using this method, government departments can clearly set out how priority policy themes such as workforce skills development, small business engagement and sustainability may be integrated into their procurement activities.<\/p>\n<p>This underlines to suppliers the overall impact that the department wants to achieve and signals how this will be assessed when considering individual tenders.<\/p>\n<p>Each department should produce a project-specific balanced scorecard to be published with their procurement documentation.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>This guidance applies to all works, infrastructure and capital investment procurements with a value greater than \u00a310 million (\u201cin-scope procurements\u201d). Departments are encouraged to adopt the approach for other procurements where there are clear benefits to doing so.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The model balanced scorecard strategic policy themes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>solutions quality<\/li>\n<li>cost<\/li>\n<li>supply chain<\/li>\n<li>employment\/skills<\/li>\n<li>environmental sustainability<\/li>\n<li>health &amp; safety<\/li>\n<li>outcome benefits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government will use its huge purchasing power to help support economic growth through the introduction of a balanced scorecard system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}