Paper 7 - Cover Procurement Action Plan

This document contains a procurement action plan for the Cairngorms National Park Authority, prepared by Louise Allen, Head of Finance and Corporate Operations. The plan aims to improve the Park Authority's procurement processes and internal controls, and it was developed following an internal audit. The Audit and Risk Committee is asked to review progress on the improvement programme and consider passing monitoring responsibilities back to the senior team. While nine actions are complete, some outstanding actions remain in progress, including staff training and the development of project initiation guidance and procurement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The committee might relinquish responsibility for monitoring the action plan and the senior team will continue to monitor the progress.