Procurement strategy update

Footnotes

1 SME generally means a company with no more than 250 employees.

2 The third sector, which includes charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups, delivers essential services, helps to improve people’s wellbeing and contributes to economic growth. It plays a vital role in supporting communities at a local level.

3 Supported businesses generally mean those businesses for which the core purpose is the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged persons.

4 Under equality legislation, the protected characteristics are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

5 http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Government/Procurement/ScottishProcurementcasestudyfeaturesinreportonmeas