Sustainable Procurement Strategy

Overview

The City of Edinburgh Council delivers much of the city’s services and construction through third party contractors. To guide all saving and spending decisions the city makes between 2025 and 2030 the Council’s Commercial and Procurement Services are developing a new five-year Sustainable Procurement Strategy.

The Council’s Procurement Strategy focuses on how we purchase and will focus on promoting economic, environmental and social outcomes that support sustainable growth within the city as well as addressing the significant challenges that the city is facing.

The Strategy is key to supporting the delivery of the Council Business Plan’s objectives to end poverty, tackle the climate and nature emergency and create good places to live and work by using the Council’s spending power to influence positive changes. Building upon the positive outcomes achieved to date procurement can help to tackle in-work poverty by requiring contractors to adopt fair work principles and promote community wealth building approaches which benefit our citizens and communities.

The Procurement Strategy also enables the Council to meet legal obligations around how it purchases services and supplies, and there are some elements of our approach that cannot be changed. Within these boundaries, however, we want this strategy to make sure that Council spending power is used in a way that meets the priorities of the city.

Your feedback and suggestions will help us to develop this Strategy which is expected to be implemented by March 2025.

Need another language or format

Please email the Interpretation and Translation Service at its@edinburgh.gov.uk quoting reference 24-1422.