ARGYLL and Bute Council awarded one-third of its contracts to local companies last year and is promising to do ‘better’ with a new procurement strategy to ‘put people in Argyll and Bute first’.
The document will guide the way the council buys goods and services over the next two financial years.
Councillor Dick Walsh, policy lead for customer services, said: ‘The new strategy puts people in Argyll and Bute first – they are at the heart of what we do.