Procurement

Wherever possible the parish council will buy goods and services from people and businesses within the parish.

The parish council will always buy the best value for goods and services which will not always be the lowest price.

“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that’s all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

“John Ruskin signature 1880” by John RuskinCreated in vector format by Scewing – Bonhams.
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