An Unsolicited Proposal for a Microconsulting Services Platform
Aug 3, 2017
Skylight, a HUBZone company made up of former Presidential Innovation Fellows and 18F staffers whose mission is to make government work in a digital world, announced an unsolicited proposal to construct a “microconsulting” services marketplace platform for the entire federal government. In an...
NAO on Commercial & Contract Management – Design Performance Measures that Work
Jul 27, 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...
Navigating the UK IT and Digital Procurement Landscape – Guidance Now Available
Jul 18, 2017
We mentioned in our Newswire last week that the UK’s Local Government Association (LGA) – a membership of councils working to influence central government on issues that matter to local authorities – had released its National Technological and Digital Procurement Category Strategy guidance....
Using Data To Strengthen the Integrity and Effectiveness of Public Procurement – Ideas from the Finalists (Part 2)
Jul 7, 2017
We wrote here an introduction to the Open Contracting Innovation Challenge, which is a competition run by the Open Contracting Partnership and the Open Data Institute to recognize ground-breaking data-driven ideas for improving public procurement. The Innovation Challenge honors original ideas for...
Open Contracting Innovation Challenge – How would you use data to strengthen public procurement?
Jun 28, 2017
The Open Contracting Innovation Challenge is a competition run by the Open Contracting Partnership and the Open Data Institute to recognise ground-breaking data-driven ideas for improving public procurement. Every third dollar that governments spend goes on public sector contracts – amounting to...
E-procurement in Indian Railways – Case Study
Jun 14, 2017
This case study report was developed by the authors and contributors to serve as a reference for practitioners focused on E-procurement systems.
The case study clearly lays out the problem statement, which provides a good summary of the motivating factors behind exploring the use of...
3 Useful Data Cuts to Support Your Supply Market Analysis
Jun 14, 2017
In this brief tutorial, DeltaBid illustrates three useful data cuts to support your broader supply market analysis efforts. Public Spend Forum has a broader set of key principles around conducting supply market analysis, as well as training to support these efforts. What DeltaBid presents here...
The Government of Singapore’s E-procurement System – Case Study
Jun 14, 2017
In this case study, The Centre for Public Impact describes how the Government of Singapore Ministry of Finance (MOF) planned and implemented an E-procurement system to be used. As noted in the case study:
“The [MOF] decided to bring together different pockets of activities or systems in the...
Being an Attractive Government Buyer – Manage Value with Effective Supplier Engagement
Jun 14, 2017
Public Spend Forum Europe (PSF Europe) provides an article overview of the content and findings of a recent document released by the National Audit Office (United Kingdom) on the topic of “be an attractive client”. The overview presented highlights that Government buyers often do not...
The Benefits of E-procurement in State Governments – Case Studies
Jun 14, 2017
This research paper by NASPO provides a robust discussion of E-procurement systems. Of particular interest in this paper is how E-procurement systems address procurement principles and drive business value outcomes for the public organization. In addition, the report also discusses the various...
E-Procurement in the Government of Andhra Pradesh State, India – Case Study
Jun 13, 2017
This article is a case study describing the E-procurement benefits realized by the State of Andhra Pradesh in India.
As part of statewide E-government applications, the state government of Andhra Pradesh implemented an E-procurement initiative with the following objectives:
Reduce the time and...
Green, Sustainable Public Procurement – Key Practices and Case Studies
Jun 13, 2017
This report lays out and discusses key practices in green, sustainable public procurement and supports each of these practices with rich country-level case studies. The key practices are individually and collectively informative and can also be applied to the individual public organization,...
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