Summary of main findings

The key findings showed that in 2003/04 London authorities:

• Spent over £8bn with third party organisations.
  
  
• Used around 200,000 different suppliers each year (with about 10-15% of these trading with two or more organisations).
  
  
• On average spent around £250m and traded with 7,000 unique suppliers per annum.
  
  
• On average 40% of suppliers generated a single invoice and over 30% of invoices were less than £100 in value, accounting for just over 1% of the expenditure.

The key message from the analysis confirms that the level of influenceable expenditure is high and that 80% goes on client facing services and public facilities.

The LCE Business Plan advocates a targeted approach to collaborative procurement which could help participating authorities to deliver savings of about £80m per year together with improved service delivery outcomes.

•  London Business Plan - Full Report (430 kb)
•  London CE workshop notes - 7 August 2004 (236kb) 
•  London CPE Consultative Workshops - Findings and Conclusions - 11th August 2004 (174kb) 
•  Letter from ALG CEO to borough CEOs on 20 August 2004 (1502kb)
•  CE circular 29 September 2004 (890kb)