Decision - Procurement Compliance Update

Brighton and Hove Audit & Standards Committee Decided 28 Jun 2022 approved GET /api/coverage

Decision maker

Audit & Standards Committee

Report author

Nigel Manvell

Published

30 Jun 2022

Reference

6646

As published

the council's own words, unedited

An update on actions to improve compliance with procurement practice and governance requirements in response to the recommendations of an internal audit review.

1) That the Audit & Standards Committee notes the contents of this report including progress made to date and ongoing actions in response to audit recommendations detailed in Appendix 1.

Parsed from the document

gpt-5.6-luna-2026-07-09 · 3118/801 tokens · 7788ms · parsed 9 Sep 2026 11:48

Everything below was read out of a PDF by a model It is useful and it is not authoritative. The document it came from is linked in the rail, and where the two disagree the document is right.

The report updates the committee on progress addressing procurement compliance issues identified in two internal audit reviews. It states that most actions are complete or substantially progressed, with longer-term work continuing to improve controls, training, data analysis and corporate systems.

Recommendation

That the Audit & Standards Committee notes the contents of the report, including progress made to date and ongoing actions in response to the audit recommendations detailed in Appendix 1.

Financial impact

There are no direct financial implications arising from this report.

Ward affected

city-wide

Decision maker

Audit & Standards Committee

Date in document

28 Jun 2022

Stakeholders named

parsed

Brighton & Hove City CouncilAudit & Standards CommitteeProcurement TeamInternal Auditcouncil officers and service directoratessuppliersMembers

Next steps

parsed

Continue implementing the agreed actions in response to the audit recommendations.
Complete longer-term solutions, including the review of the council’s corporate systems requirements.
Undertake a further Procurement Team review of compliance when the actions are substantially completed.

Precedents

not built

"Decided elsewhere" is not built Finding the same decision in other councils needs semantic matching over decision text, which is part of the search rewrite. Until then, the council's own decisions list is the way through.