Findings

Highlights of findings

Agencies reported spending $8.3 million more, but data quality issues prevent conclusions about the actual cost and efficiency of the procurement function. The increase in reported spending likely reflects agency improvements in capturing the cost of the function. In addition, it is likely that agencies are capturing the costs - but not the financial benefits - of recent investments in centralising and professionalising the function.
Procurement effectiveness results improved since last year, but there is still room for improvement. The mean Procurement MPI score of 63 percent is an increase from the previous year, but this mean score is below the UKAA cohort mean score of 68 percent.[39] Similarly, the percentage of 'commodity' Procurement spend channelled through syndicated Procurement arrangements increased to 5 percent, though is below the UKAA cohort median of 18 percent.

[39]Management Practice Indicators (MPI) are adopted from the UK Audit Agencies A&S service performance measurement methodology. Within that methodology, the MPI score assesses "the extent to which...[a] function achieves a set of key management practices which will provide an indication of whether it is a well-run, modernised and mature function. Details are found in Appendix 4.

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