Liverpool Council is to tighten the rules around how it awards contracts after it was highlighted in the damning Caller Report.
When it meets next week, the local authority is to sign off on new proposals to “improve accuracy” on how it gives out terms of work to support the delivery of services across the city. A report to the council has said the Best Value inspection in March last year raised “significant concerns” about procurement within Liverpool Council. As a result, the Government issued directions in June 2021 requiring Cunard officers to introduce “best practice Standing Orders and Regulations for contracts and property disposals”.
Current standing orders for council contracts are said to be “overly long” with an “counter-intuitive structure and are not easy to follow”. It is said that they are also “unnecessarily complex” and contain inaccuracies.
