Recap & Recording: How to Find Cyber Security Service Providers
Jun 4, 2019
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Protecting critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and political propaganda are all driving cyber security to the top of the government priority list. As governments seek proven and innovative solutions to address the changing cyber landscape, they are looking at every potential partner...
Recap & Recording: How to Buy Agile Development & Agile Consulting Services
May 9, 2019
Agile development is a hot topic today, given the pace of technological and social change. Ever since the infamous launch and crash of Healthcare.gov, public organizations have recognized its value as a replacement for traditional software development models like waterfall. But while the...
Recap & Recording: The Metrics of Public Procurement (Part 1)
Mar 28, 2019
Governments around the world purchase approximately $10 trillion in goods and services to accomplish their missions, serve their citizens, and achieve public policy goals. But how do government leaders and managers, policy makers, and citizens know the money is being spent effectively and...
Recap & Recording: How to Use GovShop to Discover Cooperative Contracts and Suppliers for Facilities Svcs & Supplies
Feb 19, 2019
Every organization has needs involving facilities services & supplies. At GovShop, we have worked to identify and populate both cooperative agreements as well as suppliers in general that can be leveraged by government agencies across the U.S.
This webinar walks you through how to identify existing...
Implementing robotics and RPA in the public sector
Dec 12, 2019
Experts from Convedo tell Consultancy.uk how RPA can benefit the public sector. Because government departmental work requires a high level of non-strategic tasks like data entry, data collection, validation, and repetitive consolidation-type processes, automation, in the shape RPA, could rectify...
Digitalisation of the NHS – Cyber security in the healthcare supply chain
Dec 5, 2019
Orpheus – the UK government-accredited cyber threat intelligence company – has produced a paper on cyber security risk in the supply chain of the National Health Service (NHS). It looks at key findings on leaked credentials, suppliers at risk, gives average vulnerability scores of companies it...
The first principle of procurement – get your specification right!
Dec 5, 2019
A fast-track inquiry is being held into a spending controversy surrounding the purchase of a printer, to be reported to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee in Ireland. Legislature of Ireland officials spent €808,000 on a state-of-the-art Komori printer. But upon arrival its dimensions proved...
Evolving the network platform: why closure of CAS(T) matters
Nov 20, 2019
We welcome this guest post by Des Ward, director at Innopsis, the trade association for suppliers of digital infrastructure and services to the UK public sector?
The recent announcement from the National Cyber Security Centre regarding the closure of the security assurance standard CESG Assured...
Seven European cities pilot solutions to be more circular
Nov 14, 2019
CityLoops is a new EU-funded project focusing on organic, and construction and demolition waste. The project will develop a series of innovative procedures, approaches and open access and open source tools to embed circularity within planning and decision-making processes for construction and...
Social value is the latest frontier for public procurement and value for money
Nov 7, 2019
Civil Service World has published an article on what social value means for the public sector. It explains how it interacts with the UN Sustainable Development Goals to compel commissioners and suppliers to widen their positive impacts through investment, transformation and regeneration, and that...
E-procurement Enabling Procurement Transformation
Nov 4, 2019
New York City and Arizona are part of a growing e-procurement trend that cuts across the public sector and commercial industry. In a case study presented by the Governing Institute and Ivalua, we take a look at how these organizations are modernizing their procurement processes for more effective...
Ministry of Defence to access IT skills via £1.5bn framework
Oct 24, 2019
The UK Ministry of Defence has plans to improve how it engages with the tech industry. It is setting up a new £1.5bn framework that will introduce a new mechanism to contracting technical skills. £300m a year will be spent over a three-to-five year period to select a number of suppliers onto a...
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