Sustainable and Innovation Procurement at EcoProcura 2018 – Breakout Sessions Confirmed
Jun 15, 2018
We wrote recently about the EcoProcura 2018 conference on sustainable, circular and innovation procurement, which takes place from 3-5 October in Nijmegen (Netherlands). This marks 20 years of the conference series, bringing together over 400 procurers, policy makers, businesses, researchers and...
Recap & Recording: Creating Public Sector Value Through Supplier Relationship Management
May 18, 2018
UK Government Talks About How It Is Now Managing Its Strategic Supplier Relationships
In a recent PSF webinar, Creating Public Sector Value Through Supplier Relationship Management, the UK Cabinet Office and supplier relationship management experts State of Flux have been highlighting some of the...
Scotland – Workshop on How To Bid For Public Contracts
May 4, 2018
A joint initiative between Scotland’s Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils is supporting local businesses in developing their capability to bid successfully for public procurement contracts. The Positive Procurement Programme (PPP) takes attendees through what a good tender looks like. It’s...
GO Public Procurement Excellence Award Winners Announced
Apr 26, 2018
The UK’s Government Opportunities (GO) is the leading media channel for all issues relating to buying for and supplying to the public sector. GO also hosts the UK National GO Awards – which are an annual opportunity for public, private and third-sector organisations to demonstrate and get...
Procura+ Sustainable and Innovation Procurement Seminar Highlights
Mar 29, 2018
The 15th Procura+ Seminar on Sustainable and Innovation Procurement took place last week in Oslo, with ICLEI and the SPP Regions project partnering to host. Procura+ Network participants, practitioners, experts, and policy makers from across Europe gathered to hear the Vice Mayor of Oslo...
Recap & Recording: Draining the Data Swamp with Smarter Procurement Analytics
Mar 9, 2018
What’s the Number One most important thing that an organization can do succeed with procurement analytics?
That question and several more were answered in a recent Public Spend Forum webinar with special guest Rob Handfied, Professor of Supply Chain Management at NC State University and Executive...
Enter the Sustainable, Circular and Innovative Public Procurement Awards
Dec 19, 2018
For a few years now we have been helping to promote the EcoProcura conference series, which started in 1998 as a forum to exchange dialogue on the latest strategies and practical solutions for sustainable, circular and innovative public procurement. It now brings together more than 400 procurers,...
GPP Helpdesk Webinar – Purchasing Green Cleaning Products and Services
Dec 6, 2018
December 18th at 14:00 CET (15.00 GMT). This is the second of two Webinars organised as part of the European Commission’s Helpdesk service on Green Public Procurement (GPP). This is a forum for stakeholders in public sector procurement to learn about important new developments in the resources...
What Do You Want!? Thoughts on Evaluation Criteria
Dec 4, 2018
When was the last time you read an inspiring response to a Federal Request for Proposal (RFP)? How about merely informative? Tolerable?
Yeah me neither. Even the ones I write are pretty horrid.
And yet we’ve created a federal acquisitions and sales process that in large part revolves around...
Ghent Wins European Sustainability Award
Nov 22, 2018
Sustainable Cities Platform has announced the winner of the Transformative Action Award, 2018. The award is for current or concluded Transformative Actions that use the pathways of the Basque Declaration related to three categories: socio-cultural transformation, socio-economic transformation...
State of Flux SRM Report Published – and UK Government Recognises SRM Value
Nov 19, 2018
State of Flux has launched the latest edition of their SRM (supplier relationship management) report. This has become a regular and valuable report over the past ten years, coming from the consulting firm that has really made the SRM space pretty much their own (in the way that Future Purchasing...
Global Public Procurement Conference Part 3 – The Human Touch
Nov 8, 2018
Craig Brewin continues his three-part report from the Global Public Procurement Conference. Part 1 is here and Part 2 here.
This is the final part of my coverage of the Global Public Procurement Conference held in Washington DC in September. As the conference progresed we heard less from the more...
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