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The Welsh Government’s procurement team has won an award for best practice in public procurement for developing a community benefits policy, that has created more than 2,000 jobs.

Sir Edward Lister refutes the idea that saving £600 million by 2016 is too unambitious, but admits efforts now concentrate on limited areas.

The chief executive of Citizens Advice has called for additional penalties to be imposed on the contractor responsible for medical assessments for poor performance.

Data gathered over the past year has enabled the Government Procurement Service to identify savings it’s already made and opportunities for the future.

Transport for London and boroughs in the capital have jointly let four contracts that are expected to generate the savings.

The chief executive of NHS Blood & Transplant Lynda Hamlyn told an audience of NHS buyers that she welcomed tough negotiations from purchasers to boost performance.

Department of Health commercial director Peter Coates told health service buyers under operations the function would be more efficient and the role of finance should be to challenge procurement performance.

“Heads of procurement and their senior buyers or category managers should get into scrubs occasionally and go down and attend a procedure or go into labs,” according to Tony Stanyard, head of procurement at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

Taking advantage of the weak and volatile economy, CPOs are using greater competition between vendors to deliver cost savings.