Watch Presentations from the Public Procurement Technology Symposium
Oct 27, 2017
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You can watch videos from the following presentations:
Welcome to the Public Procurement Technology Symposium
Raj Sharma,...
Open Contracting Innovation Award Goes to Telus from The Sinar Project for Putting Transparency in Government Contracting
Oct 27, 2017
Back in June we reported on the Open Contracting Innovation Challenge – a competition run by the Open Contracting Partnership and the Open Data Institute to recognise ground-breaking data-driven ideas for improving public procurement. Open contracting is about using open data in public...
NAO on Commercial & Contract Management – “Plan for Uncertainties”
Oct 26, 2017
At the end of last year, the UK’s National Audit Office issued a very useful document titled “Commercial and contract management: insights and emerging best practice”. We did provide an initial overview of it here, and now we are into a more detailed review of its content and findings. For...
Avoiding Using Unsolicited Proposals to Circumvent Regulations and Best Practices when Procuring PPPs
Oct 25, 2017
Emerging International Trends
Over the past year, I have become increasingly aware of an emerging trend by governments to consider Unsolicited Proposals (USPs) as a panacea to unlock the inertia that they face in launching Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) or for attracting much needed foreign...
A Successful Public Sector Procurement Transformation Story
Oct 12, 2017
It makes a nice change to actually report on a public sector ‘good news’ story. This one in particular is a successful procurement transformation story in the UK Blue Light, or emergency services, sector. It was undertaken by Mike Fairbotham, Associate Director of Procurement and Logistics at...
NAO on Commercial & Contract Management – “Understand Suppliers’ Motivation”
Oct 11, 2017
At the end of last year, the UK’s National Audit Office issued a very useful document titled “Commercial and contract management: insights and emerging best practice”. We did provide an initial overview of it here, and now we are into a more detailed review of its content and findings. For...
Infographic – What’s So Great About Being a Category Management Leader?
Sep 20, 2017
Category Management can be the right approach for any procurement organisation – regardless of sector. So the findings in this infographic, part of a fuller, more indepth report, will be of value to anyone involved in sourcing.In Future Purchasing’s annual survey and report on the status and...
Supplier Selection Processes Must Support Finding The Best Suppliers
Sep 18, 2017
Supplier selection is a fundamental element of private and public sector procurement. That seems almost too obvious a statement to commit to print, yet sometimes it seems that organisations forget just how fundamental it is, and how important it is to get it right.
In the public (government) sector...
Strategies for Procurement Success
Sep 7, 2017
Government Technology provides examples on how to find procurement success at federal and local levels by examining models that other jurisdictions have explored. Taking direction from industry leaders, this article describes a current state where agencies are historically reluctant to adopt...
Circular Procurement Best Practice Report – Helps Organisations Identify Needs and Ask Different Questions
Sep 1, 2017
SPP Regions is a consortia of partners forming a regional procurement network across Europe. It is made up of municipalities working together on sustainable public procurement (SPP) and public procurement of innovation (PPI). The network collaborates on eco-innovative solutions and tenders, in...
Ethics in Government (and Private Sector) Procurement
Aug 18, 2017
Over the years, we have seen a lot of procurement ethical policies that were not fit for purpose, in both private firms and government bodies. So we thought it was worth sharing a few of the common problems that we’ve seen with such statements and policies, and suggest ways to improve them. Here...
Federal Contractor Summertime Blues: 5 Steps to Staying on Track
Aug 14, 2017
To everything there is a season. No one knows this more than companies that do business with the Federal government; the Federal procurement season that is. Summer, especially late summer of July through September, is 4th quarter of the Federal calendar year, and many Federal contractors mirror...
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Perspectives and Insights
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