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2. NAVCA & commissioning… Local Commissioning & Procurement Unit
Infrastructure focus
Support, information, networking & guidance
Communicating to govt. departments
Promoting “Intelligent commissioning”
3. Commissioning… The whole cycle
The cycle of assessing the needs of people in an area, designing and then securing an appropriate service
5. Where do you fit in? Assessing Needs
Designing Services
Sourcing providers
Delivering to users
Monitoring and evaluation.
6. How? Commissioning strategies
Local strategic plans & priorities
Consultations
Find the right people
Communicate impact
Find support!
7. Watch out for… Engagement with local / regional commissioning
Evolving use of grants and contracts
Size & scale of contracts
Demonstrating social impact
Timescales and cost
Skills & knowledge
8. What do you need to know? How deep?
Delivery / influence / already involved / new opportunities / changing relationships
What are local priorities & areas of need
Where next for your organisation & its mission
9. Understanding your market What do YOU do?
Who buys it? – is it a local priority?
Looking forward
growth or cut backs?
What direction?
Personalisation or regionalisation?
Competition & scale – are you big enough alone?
10. Understanding the process Commissioning frameworks
Grant or procurement process?
Timescales
Paperwork
Relevant policies
What should you look out for?
11. National context - pre-election Evolving local govt
Delivery role ? ? ? commissioning role
Focus on outcomes & impact
Talk of financial squeeze
Investment in commissioning
DCSF, DoH, OTS & IDeA, Futurebuilders, Compact
Choice & personalisation
Delivery role ? ? ? commissioning role
Local Area Agreements
Local Strategic Partnerships
Comprehensive Area Assessment
188 National Indicators (1-199!)
New duties – duty to involve / consult
Mixed market approach V one size fits all
Risk & contestability
Delivery role ? ? ? commissioning role
Local Area Agreements
Local Strategic Partnerships
Comprehensive Area Assessment
188 National Indicators (1-199!)
New duties – duty to involve / consult
Mixed market approach V one size fits all
Risk & contestability
12. The future?
13. “We will support the creation and expansion of mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises, and enable these groups to have much greater involvement in the running of public services.”
“We will introduce new powers to help communities save local facilities and services threatened with closure, and give communities the right to bid to take over local state-run services.”
“We will give public sector workers a new right to form employee-owned co-operatives” Looking forward
14. Good examples – commissioning & strategy Consult on strategies
Put strategies into practice
Strategic approach
Mixed market of supply
Publish priorities & commissioning intentions
Top level buy-in
Involvement
15. Good examples - buying Know when to use available routes
Grants, grants-in-aid, contracts
Clarity over terms
Proportionality
Flexibility within procurement
Get spec & scoring criteria right
Outcome driven
16. NAO Successful Commissioning New online tool for commissioners
Builds on national ‘Decision Support Tool’
Focus is local commissioning
Stages of commissioning
Use of grant
Link to Intelligent Monitoring
?http://www.nao.org.uk/successfulcommissioning
17. Support from NAVCA Enquiry service
Online resources
Guides
Quality standards
The legal maze
Challenging processes
Public law
Networking
Training & seminars
18. ? www.navca.org.uk/lcpu
? 0114 289 3989
? lcpu@navca.org.uk