English Efficiency resources can be found in the following sub categories:
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| Transforming the Procurement of Temporary Agency and Interim Staff (PDF 393kb) | Temporary agency staff costs London boroughs over £900M each year. This excellent guidance, produced by the London Centre of Excellence gives hints and tips that is relevant to any organisation seeking to cut costs, streamline the use of agency staff and improve the quality of their agency staff. | 02/03/2007 |
| Procurement of Agency Staff (PDF) | The acquisition and use of agency staff is a highly topical and potentially controversial management issue in the public sector. Typically, agency staff have been seen as filling mainly administrative roles, but in local authorities today they undertake front line service delivery in areas such as care provision..... | 03/04/2005 |
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| IT Maintenance Management - the pitfalls and the benefits (PDF 149kb) | When companiespurchase hardware and software they expend a huge amount of energy negotiating the price down to the last penny. What they often fail to recognise is that they have thrown away....... | 25/11/2008 |
| Time to put that Old Asset Management Chestnut to bed (PDF 166kb) | This paper discusses the growing awareness of a need for a strategic approach to managing corporate assets, and in particular IT assets. | 25/11/2008 |
| The Last Thing you need is Software (PDF) | Asset management is finally getting the recognition it deserves – particularly in the IT arena. But despite a lot of hard work, especially on the part of Gartner, the definition of asset management still varies wildly depending on who you talk to | 05/02//2007 |
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| A guide to buying Consultancy and other Professional Services (PDF 222kb) | This guide will help you to spend money on consultancy services more wisely; it applies to all professional services | 17/09/2008 |
| Consultancy Brokerage Paper(PDF 227kb) | Using a Brokerage to improve the purchase and use of Professional Services - produced by LB Islington. | 17/09/2008 |
| Commissioning Toolkit for the Procurement of Consultancy and Professional Services (PDF 1,502kb) | The purchase of consultants and professional services accounts for between £350M to £500M in London boroughs. This toolkit provides some essential disciplines for specifying the need for consultants, plus lots more. | 26/01/2007 |
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| Energy Procurement Process (PDF 924kb) | During the past two years, energy costs have increased by an average of approximately 154%, leaving councils with significantly increased utility expenditure. With a total energy spend, in London alone, of approximately £110m per annum, there is real potential for these price increases to have an adverse effect on Council Tax rates. | 18/07/2008 |
| Energy Procurement Model (PDF 456kb) | The Energy Procurement Service Provider (PSP) function's business requirements are largely consistent with the needs for equivalent industrial and commercial customers in the Private sector. Some additional requirements exist, foer example..... | 17/07/2008 |
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| eAuctions (PDF 640kb) | eAuctions can be a highly effective tool to generate savings but they require careful planning and skillful execution. This paper give some excellent guidance. | 23/09/2008 |
| Leveraging IT Hardware Expenditure (PDF 112kb) | This Pan London Strategy is the outcome from work instigated and led by the LCE in 2005, looking at ICT Hardware, its major direct suppliers and market characteristics. | 19/09/2008 |
| Broadband Networks for the UK (PDF 147kb) | The advent of local loop unbundling operators has enabled a new generation of managed service providers to offer very cost effective networks to the public sector. | 17/09/2008 |
| Measuring and Reporting Value for Money Gains (PDF 110Kb) | A Government publication for organisations needing to report under the CSR07 efficiency regime. A bit theoretical in places, but avoids the need for complex formula which has been the order of the day on previous occasions | 14/04/2008 |
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| LAML High Court Ruling (PDF 4Mb) | High Court judgement on the establishing of a new mutual insurance company, London Assurance Mutual Limited (LAML) by local authorities. | 01/06/2008 |
| LAML Press Release (PDF 245kb) | A High Court ruling today gave the all clear for a local government insurance company, throwing out claims from the private sector that the councils | 01/06/2008 |
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| Developing the local government services market to support a long term strategy for local government (PDF 1.1Mb) | Published in November 2006 by DCLG, this document looks at the way local government services are delivered and considers some of the future challenges ahead | 14/04/2008 |
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| OGC Capabilty Reviews - Trance 1 (PDF 202kb) | OGC has carried out Procurement Capability Reviews on Central Government departments. Read the results of the outcomes here. This is tranche 1 | 28/09/2008 |
| OGC Capabilty Reviews - Tranche 2 (PDF 1,017kb) | OGC has carried out Procurement Capability Reviews on Central Government departments. Read the results of the outcomes here. This is tranche 2 | 28/09/2008 |
| Contract and Relationship Management (PDF 913kb) | Status Review of Contract and Relationship Management in London - produced by the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. | 17/09/2008 |
| Measuring and reporting Value for Money Gains (PDF 110kb) | A Government publication for organisations needing to report under the CSR07 efficiency regime. A bit theoretical in places, but avoids the need for complex formula which has been the order of the day on previous occasions | 14/04/2008 |
| Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 (PDF 1.6Mb) | 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, Cm 7227 'Meeting the aspirations of the British people' published 9 October 2007 by the Treasury. | 15/12/2007 |
| Delivering Value for Money - Meeting the Challenge of CRS07 (PDF 421kb) | Published by the Department for Communities and Local Government | 15/12/2007 |
| Releasing resources to the Front Line- An Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency (PDF 374kb) | Download Sir Peter Gershon's Review of Public Sector Efficiency from July 2004 | 15/12/2007 |
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| Developing the Local Government Services Market - Shared Services (PDF 682kb) | This working paper is one of a series that highlight from research undertaken by PWC into key local government markets on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government | 18/09/2008 |
| Shared Services Report (PDF 147kb) | Across London there are already examples of a number of shared services in place, sub-regional partnerships are actively investigating more... | 18/09/2008 |
| Shared Solutions to Realising Efficiencies (PDF 1,172kb) | A strategic overview for the development of future shared solutions between the seven West London authorities. | 18/09/2008 |
| Delivering Cross Regional Savings in Highway Commodities (PFD 210kb) | A promotional flyer setting out what has been achieved in the Midlands by collaborating on highway commodities. This work was funded by the former East and West Midlands Centres of Excellence. | 17/09/08 |
| Modern Public Services: Shared Services, Bigger, cheaper, better? (PDF 377 kb) | A SOCITM publication providing some really good case studies on shared services including Partners in Parking (PIP) | 14/04/2008 |
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Buying a Better London SMEs - BMEs (PDF 280kb) |
The Buying a Better London programme comprised a series of innovative yet pragmatic workstreams to investigate and develop the connection between local authority procurement and our business communities. | 18/09/2008 |
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| Measuring and Reporting Value for Money Gains (PDF 766kb) | This guidance sets out all the basic information required by a local authority to calculate the data required for National Indicator 179. | 25/11/2008 |
| Guidance for 2007-08 Backward Looking Efficiency Statements (PDF 151kb) | Produced by CLG, a guide as to how to fill in the backward looking Annual Efficiency Statements(AES). Although time has expired there are a few pointers around capturing efficiency gains | 17/09/2008 |
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| Local Area Agreements and two-tier local government (PDF 230kb) | Councils are providing leadership for changing places.This publication discusses how areas with two tiers of local government can use the new LAAs. | 25/11/2008 |
| Procurement Performance Management (PDF 228kb) | This document identifies a small number of indicators and associated measures for procurement that could be adopted on a pan london basis. written by the LCE | 18/09/2008 |
| National Procurement Strategy 2008 (PDF 302kb) | Local government is entering into another period of major change. The provisions set out in the Local Government White Paper will be implemented and the sector must rise to the challenges laid down by the Comprehensive Spending Review. The pursuit of better, more efficient local government services is relentless. | 05/02/2008 |
| Developing the Local Government Services Market to support a long term strategy for Local Government (PDF 1.1Mb) | Published in November 2006 by DCLG, this document looks at the way local government services are delivered and considers some of the future challenges ahead | 14/04/2008 |
| Transforming Government Procurement (PDF 889kb) | Published in Jan 2007, herewith the government’s plans for modernising and downsizing the OGC
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| National Procurement Strategy (PDF 362Kb) | Published in October 2004, here is the much vaunted plan for English local government | 10/11/2003 |
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| Sustainable Procurement Toolkit (PDF 186kb) | This toolkit was developed as part of the London Centre of Excellence Procurement Project led by London Borough of Camden | 18/09/2008 |
| Setting Standards for use of waste and recovered materials in construction (PDF 323kb) | Highly topical for those authorities seeking to show how the sustainability agenda can also mean less cost. Produced under the WRAP initiative and published by the East Midlands RCE, this is an excellent publication showing how an organisation can deliver results on more than agenda | 14/04/2008 |