New Study on Local Authorities Reporting under the Modern Slavery Act
Mar 23, 2018
The Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group (BHRE) of Greenwich University has released the findings from its qualitative research into modern slavery statements from UK local authorities. The research studies public sector implementation of the Transparency in Supply Chains...
Danielle Hinz talks Amazon Business, Lean Processes & Business Priorities on the Procurement Leaders Podcast
Mar 19, 2018
As Chief Procurement Officer of King County, Washington, Danielle Hinz has her own dreams for improving the procurement function. From technology modernization to shortening the RFP process using lean methods, she’s proving that private sector best practices are absolutely workable in the public...
Publishing Data on Government Contracts – The Shortfall and How To Fix It
Mar 16, 2018
Research by the UK’s Open Contracting Partnership, and OpenOpps, an open data start-up analysing government contracting, shows that of about 450 public contracts of the 208 public bodies spending money with Carillion, less than 50 public contract notices could be verified by searching all of the...
A New Structure For Institutional Cooperation Between Eastern Partnership Countries
Mar 16, 2018
The representatives of Eastern Partnership countries of Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine have met to discuss emerging regional trends, and common and country-specific challenges in tackling corruption risks in public procurement. A new structure for institutional cooperation between the...
When Things Go Wrong in Procurement: 5 Tips on What to Do
Mar 15, 2018
Over the course of the last decade, a lot has changed in public procurement. Among other developments, international organizations have gotten more involved in public procurement policy, creating toolkits (think O.E.C.D in Paris), and standardizing how procurement is integrated in national...
How Much Detail Should Buyers Have When Assessing Bids?
Mar 13, 2018
A recent outsourced services company’s unfair dismissals in a UK prison have raised more procurement-related questions. So here are two good questions you could use in your tender evaluation processes, particularly for complex outsourced services contracts that have a major “people...
Showcase Your Public Authority’s Procurement Process
Mar 9, 2018
It’s time again for the Procura+ awards which recognise sustainable and innovative public procurements which lead to real improvements in public goods, services, processes and infrastructure. They are co-ordinated by ICLEI, in co-operation with the EU-funded Procure2Innovate project. Call for...
The State of Sustainability and Bridging the Procurement/Business Collaboration Gap
Mar 8, 2018
We were delighted to come across this article in GeenBiz ‘3 tips to win over the corporate procurement team,’ as it actually lays out why the ‘business’ should liaise more with, and get more out of, procurement for a change, rather than the other way around.
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Three Key Skills This Procurement Leader Thinks Everyone Should Have
Mar 5, 2018
Even into her third year as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Jenny Doherty hasn’t stopped doing what she loves: bringing private sector best practices into government. Whether its saving money through innovative practices like reverse auctions or streamlining...
UK Government Issues Professional Standards for Contract Management
Feb 27, 2018
The UK government (via the “Government Commercial Function”) has issued a set of professional standards for Contract Management. The standards have been given a high profile, as can be seen by the fact that the foreword to the document is credited to Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and...
Latest Corruption Perceptions Index – Transparency International
Feb 23, 2018
Transparency International has published its latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. It uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. (Its methodology can be...
New Practices in IT Software Procurement
Feb 23, 2018
The Institute for Public Procurement (NIGP) released the second part of a series on IT Software Procurement. The first practice on IT Procurement provided an overview of the four commodity types of software, hardware, services, and support, and maintenance. This second practice explores the special...
Policies and Regulations
It’s no surprise President Trump has been systematically dismantling President Obama’s executive orders, since taking office. Obama himself knew it was a possibility: Frustrated by …
Past performance is an important step in being successful as a federal government contractor. Once firms get into the mid-tier range, they normally have amassed …
A few months back, we published several articles about the very interesting – and somewhat shocking – court case around the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning …
Perspectives and Insights
I have been interested in the question of getting successful commercial companies, especially tech companies, to sell to the government from the time I was …
The Contractor Accountability and Transparency Act of 2017 (S. 651), introduced by Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., is yet another example of a …
Think you know all about public sector owned professional buying organisations (PBOs) and what they do? Here are ten interesting facts that might just surprise …