Category A: Office Equipment

The National Category Forum (NCF) for Office Equipment was established in January 2008, with support from Centres of Expertise (CoE's) and organisations representing the Scottish Public Sectors. NCF members
Office Equipment Category Plan: The Office Equipment Category plan has been finalised and endorsed by the NCF members. The initial findings and opportunities from the Category Plan led to further commodity analysis by way of an economic analysis paper, survey and stakeholder workshops.
Office Equipment Survey: An Office Equipment survey was carried out in early 2008, it was distributed to public sector organisations via the CoE's. A 50% response rate was achieved covering circa 80% of spend. The survey captured spend, buying trends and future procurement intentions.
Office Equipment Stakeholder Workshops: Building upon the survey, Procurement Scotland hosted a number of stakeholder workshops across Scotland during June 2008. The cross sector workshops where open to all organisations to attend and provided an additional outlet for organisations to feedback on the commodity and share best practice.
Sourcing Strategy: The Sourcing Strategy for Office Equipment was finalised by Procurement Scotland and the NCF members in June. This was issued to the six Centres of Expertise in July, all six sectors have endorsed the strategy.

OJEU : Following strategy endorsement the Office Equipment OJEU notice was issued on the Thursday 18th September 2008. Link to notice - (UK-Edinburgh: office equipment except furniture).
PQQ: Return date for all Office Equipment PQQ responses is 12:00 hours 28th October 2008.
Scottish Framework: From the findings to date, the proposed plan is to have a Scottish Framework agreement for Office Equipment by Spring 2009.

If you have any comments or suggestions, or would like more information, please get in touch with our team:

Denis McFadden (Portfolio Lead): denis.mcfadden@scotland.gsi.gov.uk : 0131 2441925
Stephanie Wells (Category Manager): Stephanie.wells@scotland.gsi.gov.uk : 0131 2448156
Susan McPherson (Strategic Buyer): Susan.mcpherson@scotland.gsi.gov.uk : 0141 242 5935
Tony Aitken (Market Analyst/ Buyer): tony.aitken@scotland.gsi.gov.uk : 0131 2448498

Link to sharepoint - for NCF members only

NCF organisations (as of November 2008)

The Scottish Government