Collaboration and teamwork

ProcurEU definition

No public procurement professional works in isolation. To be successful, procurement professionals need to collaborate with each other and their environment. This means working in teams and encouraging the sharing of ideas and strategies and the gathering input and expertise. This is equally applicable for a small organisation where the public buyer will have to rely on both internal and external stakeholders, as well as for larger organisations and central purchasing bodies, where there is a conscious strategy for building multidisciplinary procurement teams for specific procurement procedures (e.g. lawyer, economist, specialist or subject-matter expert).