Public Procurement

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:19 pm on 20 June 2018.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:19, 20 June 2018

I thank the Member for that question, and thank her for the letter she wrote to me about that specific case. She will know that there is a review of the National Procurement Service and Value Wales that is currently under way. It's there to make sure that, if there are any opportunities to us to adjust our procurement procedures the other side of the European Union, we are able to take those opportunities. One of the things that we may be able to do—and I must emphasise, of course, Llywydd, that this is still part of the discussion—will be to amend the rules, so that the sorts of firms to which Leanne Wood referred—local firms without the capacity to be constantly involved in the procurement field—that there is a more level playing field for them as compared to some of the rules that we currently have to abide by.