Classifications

New Standards for Procurement Classification

The London Centre of Excellence (LCE) is leading the way on the introduction of a new procurement classification (not coding) standard for local government. It is called ProClass and has been developed and trialled over the last two years across local authorities.

It is primarily designed to support the exchange of expenditure and contract information between authorities to support collaborative working. It is structured to target and analyse high value spend, so will typically be used only in expenditure analysis tools and contracts registers. The LCE, supported by other regions has commissioned Coding International to map ProClass to UNSPSC, NSV (alpha sections) and Thomson and maintain this service on a monthly basis.

New Standards for Procurement Classification [download PDF document]
ProClass Cross Reference [download Excel document]
Classification Hierarchy [download Excel document]