NAO新报告——商业关系简短指南

英国国家审计署发布了一份商业关系简短指南就在圣诞节前,这是一系列有用的公共采购相关出版物中的最新一份,这些出版物超出了国家审计办公室通常的职责范围,用于审查特定的组织、项目或活动。

Like the excellentCommercial and contract management: insights and emerging best practiceguide which was published around a year ago, which we have been reviewing insight by insight over the past few months on公共支出论坛,this new guide looks at general procurement and commercial issues across a range of central government organisations and draws on the many reports that NAO has produced relevant to these topics in recent years.

这份新报告有点快,大约30页长,而之前的报告只有84页,但对于任何对公共部门商业表现感兴趣的人来说,这两份报告都是必不可少的阅读材料。正如NAO所说:

“本简短指南总结了国家审计署在审计政府商业关系时遇到的关键问题、政府在解决这些问题方面取得的进展以及仍然存在的风险。”。

文档是事实informati的组合on, brief case studies and some NAO analysis. The data is very interesting and will be quoted by many for years to come we suspect (including Spend Matters and Public Spend Forum) – with statements like this:.

“2515亿英镑——根据对整个政府账户的分析,2015-2016年通过外部供应商估算的政府支出,约占政府支出总额的33%”。

然而,即使是NAO也给我们留下了一些问题。最初的部门支出分析似乎忽略了教育,这很奇怪。另一张图表(第7页)显示,教育支出总额为897亿英镑,而第三方支出仅为74亿英镑。这么少的外部支出似乎不太可能?

This may just emphasise the difficulty of getting to accurate numbers, but there is much more to this report than just the data. After the initial numbers, it gets into an overview of government’s commercial activities, and comments on the governance structures.

政府机构保留对其外包服务的责任。该合同是会计人员的主要机制,以确保外包服务包含适当的问责安排,以满足公共服务的预期标准。这些安排应在各部门现在公布的会计官员制度报表中加以说明”。

国家审计办公室也不怕发表一些相当直接的评论。

合同本身应明确说明支出承诺和目标。但是,尽管法律和政策明确要求所有合同都是公开的,但我们发现,许多合同要么没有公布,要么被严重修订”。

That difference between positive statements on transparency and what happens in practice is something we experience regularly as we try to find out what is going on in government procurement!

不管怎样,这份报告接着进入了核心,根据NAO的评论和工作,审视“商业主题”。我们很快就会回来更详细地了解这一点,关于政府采购组织评估中心的当前计划,也有一些有趣的评论和数据,我们也将再次了解。但与此同时,你可以下载并阅读whole document here.

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