Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 3 April 2019.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 1:55, 3 April 2019

Certainly, we're working to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises are able to bid into contracts in the construction sector, and that's one of our key target sectors, actually, in terms of our approach to procurement. Of course, we had the review of the National Procurement Service and Value Wales, and we're currently working together with stakeholders to transition those teams to a new service with a reduced portfolio of national contracts, but with very much a stronger focus on the development and delivery of procurement policy on that local and regional basis, which I think would provide smaller construction companies with a much greater opportunity to engage with the contracts that are available.