The English southeast county of Essex is planning to pool procurement resources between six other police forces in a bid to reduce costs and gain better spending power. The 7 Force Collaboration Programme is made up of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent, and they say they are seeking to enhance frontline services by promoting efficiencies though a joint procurement system. Significant work has been undertaken to analyse the contracts that exist between the seven forces, to establish those that could deliver benefits through an aggregation of spend. Read the full story on the Yellow Advertiser.
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