Market intelligence solutions provider SpendEdge has recently published an article for any firm wanting to better understand the public procurement process when competing for work. It highlights six key steps to follow including: requirement identification, scope of the procurement, determining the...

In a post this week, procurement advisory firm Odesma talked about what they believe to be some of the main challenges in public sector procurement that are preventing them from implementing innovation and efficiencies. One of them is ‘engaging local suppliers.’ “With Brexit a couple of...

Professor of Economic Law at the University of Bristol Law School and a Member of the European Procurement Law Group, Prof Albert Sanchez-Graells, has written a paper to submit to the Annual EU Law and Policy Conference titled ‘EU Law in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.’ In it he...

A Global Lead Cities Network on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) report has been released. The initiative was set up to create a worldwide network of leading cities that share and develop their capabilities to implement sustainable and innovation procurement, driving a transition to sustainable...

Central and local government in the UK has made some significant environmental commitments in the past 12 months. Swindon Borough Council-owned Public Power Solutions says falling costs and rising demand for solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) ‘makes large-scale solar investment a good bet...

A recent report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) explains the results of a survey of 1,135 small businesses in the UK. Findings show that one-fifth said they have been the victim of cyber-attack in the past two years, which the research equates to nearly 10,000 cyber-attacks a day for...

TheyBuyForYou.eu is a three-year initiative with researchers, innovators and public administrations from five European countries. With funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, it aims to deliver tools, alongside enabling technologies and data, to make...

The ‘TheyBuyForYou’ project brings together researchers, innovators and public administrations from five European countries who are working on guidelines for procurement data visualisation. An international research team with open data specialists from the University of Southampton have...