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On how it might know whether efforts to transform public procurement have been successful, the GCF told us that government could look at the number of challenges they get and the number of disputes. The GCF noted that alternatively government could also look at the KPI performance or social value criteria and whether they are seeing that those are being usefully applied to generate more than just price and quality for the contract itself. GCF reflected that a national procurement policy statement is permitted by the new 48 C&AG’s Report para 1.5 49 Q 71 50 Q 71 51 Committee of Public Accounts, Transforming rehabilitation: progress review, Ninety-Fourth Report of Session 2017–19, HC 1747, 3 May 2019, recommendation 4 52 Qq 74–75 53 Q 75 16 Competition in public procurement Procurement Act, which will allow the government of the day to say: “of all the social value criteria that we have on our published menu, we would like procurements to focus on the environment”, for example, or training, or local employment, as determined by the government of the day. The GCF will be able to look at those and see how many of those criteria have cropped up in local procurements.54 Building commercial expertise across government