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Toronto Province Eliminates Bid Submission Fees

A province of Toronto Canada has announced it is eliminating the fees businesses have to pay to access procurement contracts. Although not a European story, we wonder whether it’s an initiative that may encourage other provinces, indeed other regions, ...

Open Opps Platform Makes Data on Public Sector Spend Accessible To All

Last year, we introduced here on Public Spend Forum the Open Opps (as in “opportunities”) platform that is monitoring public sector contract opportunities in the UK and more widely. A recent initiative has seen the site now offering a spend analysis ...

Off-Site Construction Manufacture Could Boost Productivity – But Public Procurement May Need to Change

In the UK, the House of Lords, Science and Technology Committee, is running an inquiry into off-site manufacturing for the construction industry. This involves the construction of components before they are brought together for final assembly at their ...

A New Era For Big Data In Procurement: Part 2

As illustrated by the quote below, the case for data in business is not a new one , nor one that needs to be much discussed. The purpose is, and always was, to collect sufficient data (and not too much, ‘infobesity’ and ‘analysis paralysis’ are well-known ...

CCS Digital Outcomes and Specialists 3 - Bids Open July

UK Crown Commercial Service (CCS) - the government commercial arm - has confirmed that it plans to launch the third iteration of the Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) framework this year. The framework helps the public sector to find suppliers that ...

Council Moves Away from Single-Supplier and Recommissions ICT Services and Contracts In-House

One of the UK’s local councils – Croydon - has announced it is changing its ICT delivery model by moving away from its current single-supplier ICT contract to a mix of specialist vendors managed by an in-house team. Is this the start of a more common ...

Bids Invited for £1.6bn Heathrow Railway

London Waterloo to Heathrow Airport is a proposed new rail line, and the UK government is inviting private investors to fund it. Transport secretary Chris Grayling announced that the government is seeking third-party involvement for proposals for the ...

Leveraging Data to Simplify and Streamline Sustainable Procurement

The attached case study presents an example of how to simplify and streamline sustainable practices, by leveraging the technology platform Ecomedes . This technology company is dedicated to streamlining sustainable practices through innovation and their ...

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Agricultural Products

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InnProBio Launches Online Toolbox for Buyers

The InnProBio European project has launched an online toolbox for bio-based procurement in the public sector. The toolbox is a starting point for public buyers to learn about the various bio-based products available on the market when considering alternatives ...

You Can Help To Improve the EU Food Supply Chain

The European Commission announced this week it is opening up a public consultation on how to improve the food supply chain. The European agricultural sector has become increasingly integrated into global markets, and, while this has created important ...

USDA's Innovative Procurement Success Story

Ed Harper, the Food and Nutrition Service’s director of the Office of Program Integrity for Child Nutrition Programs, worked with the Presidential Innovation Fellows to create a new online application prototype for free and reduced lunches. Harper explains ...

Clothing, Textiles & Subsistence S&E

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Electronic & Communication Equipment and Services

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Glasgow WAN Contract To Transform City’s Digital Infrastructure

An Edinburgh-based SME has landed a pivotal role in one of the UK’s largest recent public sector contracts that will see Glasgow evolve its digital city status, says Digital by Default . Scotland’s largest independent telecoms firm, Commsworld, has finalised ...

Smart Cities: Connected Bikes Launch in Las Vegas

Through a network of connected devices, Boston-based startup, Charles River Analytics, hopes to make cycling a safer activity by allowing bicycles to communicate with connected vehicles and smart-city technology to promote safer shared roadways. Las Vegas ...

El Paso’s Chatbot, Ask Laura, is a Real ‘Game Changer’

After success with a chatbox tool on the city’s procurement website, El Paso officials are considering how to implement it across other platforms. Ask Laura provides users with a “customer service experience that provides immediate information on topics ...

Facilities, Infrastructure & Construction

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Off-Site Construction Manufacture Could Boost Productivity – But Public Procurement May Need to Change

In the UK, the House of Lords, Science and Technology Committee, is running an inquiry into off-site manufacturing for the construction industry. This involves the construction of components before they are brought together for final assembly at their ...

Bids Invited for £1.6bn Heathrow Railway

London Waterloo to Heathrow Airport is a proposed new rail line, and the UK government is inviting private investors to fund it. Transport secretary Chris Grayling announced that the government is seeking third-party involvement for proposals for the ...

UK Construction Tender Prices Anticipated To Rise

Construction News reports that a supply chain squeeze will push up tender prices. They are anticipated to rise in 2018 owing to the supply chain being unable to support rising input costs, according to Mace’s cost consultancy arm. The company has revised ...

HE Smart Motorways Procurement Supply Chain Consultation Begins

Highways England is seeking the views of its supply chain in the development of a new procurement model for its Smart Motorways Programme. “The aim of the new model is to enable Highways England to achieve its ambitions for the strategic road network ...

Rethinking Outdated Approach to Paying for Infrastructure

Crumbling infrastructure can be fixed if we change how we fund capital investments and maintenance, according to Dr. John Brown Miller, principal at Ironside Strategies and recognized expert on infrastructure. As he explains, the separation of capital ...

Waste Management Procurement Research

Global procurement intelligence advisory firm, SpendEdge, has launched its Waste Management Procurement market intelligence report. It aims to help buyers understand the current supply landscape of the facility management sector. It outlines the difficulties ...

Public Sector Purchasing Bodies Join in Largest Water Framework Agreement

Earlier this year, the UK Crown Commercial Service joined forces with public sector procurement arm YPO, The Energy Consortium, the ESPO, NEPO procurement arms, West Mercia Energy and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to bring the largest public sector water ...

Better Public Building Award for New Scotland Yard

The new headquarters of the UK Metropolitan Police has won a Better Public Building Award, made by the Prime Minister. The award is for publicly funded building projects which offer value for money. It moved into the new headquarters in late 2016, having ...

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Human Capital (Development)

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GSA’s $11 Billion HR Training Vehicle Slowly Picking Up

The General Services Administration (GSA) is seeing slow, steady growth for its Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCATS) government-wide contract. Tiffany Hixson, the assistant commissioner for GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service’s Office of Professional ...

Market Intelligence Report 2017: Department of Veterans Affairs

With 2016 being one of the most active years for federal IT contracts, 2017 is shaping up to be one the most competitive. Several large, high-ceiling, government-wide acquisition contracting vehicles (GWACs) hit the street last calendar year, with approximately ...

Industrial Products and Services

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Good To Great: Innovation In The Industrial Base

“Thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability.” This quote did not come from a disgruntled acquisition professional in the Pentagon, but from noted author Jim Collins in his eponymous business book, Good to Great . He did not have had the third ...

Information Technology (IT)

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A New Era For Big Data In Procurement: Part 2

As illustrated by the quote below, the case for data in business is not a new one , nor one that needs to be much discussed. The purpose is, and always was, to collect sufficient data (and not too much, ‘infobesity’ and ‘analysis paralysis’ are well-known ...

A New Era for Big Data in Procurement

The Convergence of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence. Part 1. There is an important issue in the world of Procurement. While the future of the function is at stake, too many CPOs and Procurement organisations are looking ...

Starting the Procurement Journey to BI Solutions - Recorded Webinar

Public sector organizations may experience great benefit from business intelligence (BI) solutions, but not without diligence in the planning process to understand why they need it and which business challenges are to be solved. This was one of several ...

Sweden Tightens IT Outsourcing Approach – More Signs that the UK Outsources for Outsourcing Sake?

In January, the Swedish Government took steps to change its policy around IT outsourcing to private firms. It introduced rules, which will come into effect in April, to tighten security in IT outsourcing deals, affecting hundreds of outsourcing projects ...

Buy Smart to Avoid the Business Intelligence Failure Trap

If you're planning to buy a business intelligence solution, how will you make sure your project isn't one out of every two that will fail ? There are common reasons for this high failure rate, and some relatively easy steps that you as a buyer can take ...

Public-Sector Tech: Ongoing Issues and Opportunities

As agencies attempt to connect government to technology, there are enduring themes and disruptive topics that keep showing up. GovTech provides a rundown of technology trends that both elected leaders and government officials keep talking about. The ...

Don't Buy Procurement Technology Without Hearing This First

Technology solutions hold much promise for public sector organizations, but without smart procurement practices these business opportunities won't attract the best suppliers in the procurement technology marketplace. This was a theme shared by Eliza ...

Buying Procurement Technology Webinar: Meet our Panel

We're just a few days away from the next in our series of How to Buy Procurement Technology webinars. What started with advice on how to get started with a procurement technology acquisition has evolved to a panel of expert suppliers and industry consultants ...

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Healthcare (Products and Services)

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Illinois Officials at Odds over Massive Procurement

Illinois Comptroller Susan Mendoza has published a column in the State Journal-Register about concerns she has over proposed changes to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services's Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO) system. Mendoza writes: ...

Office Management

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Ebook: Market Insights For Purchasing IT Hardware

Understanding markets and supplier capabilities is critical to engaging a market, developing a purchasing strategy and meeting your organizational needs. Given how time intensive and time-consuming market intelligence can be, we have tried to make the ...

Purchasing Insights - Printers And MFDs

With so many options and configurations, printers and other hardware is often cited as a difficult category to wrangle. With that in mind, we've put together a quick reference guide with data and market insights, to help inform your buy. The following ...

Professional Services

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Buy Smart to Avoid the Business Intelligence Failure Trap

If you're planning to buy a business intelligence solution, how will you make sure your project isn't one out of every two that will fail ? There are common reasons for this high failure rate, and some relatively easy steps that you as a buyer can take ...

Webinar: Preparing to Buy Cybersecurity Services

As more and more citizen services move from paper-based to digital, the benefits gained are underlined by cybercriminals lurking in the digital shadows. How should procurement and program professionals begin thinking about the products or services available ...

New Guidance for Local Authorities on Procuring Digital Services

UK Local Government Association (LGA) on July 11 released its ‘National technological and digital procurement category strategy’ guidance. It is intended to help councils make the right choices in procuring contracts for IT services. The strategy calls ...

Report: Services Contracting Dominated by Re-Competes

Research and analysis firm Nation Analytics has published a new "Government Services Competitive Intelligence Report," finding that most major services contracts—defined as valued at $50 million or more—are re-competes, and aren't seeking leading-edge ...

Procurement of Professional Services – Three Reasons Why the Public Sector Uses Consultants

We threatened recently to run a series on buying professional services in the context of public sector organisations and buyers. That came about in part through a report that identified spend by central government in the UK on consultants was rising again ...

How to Evaluate Price in Tenders – Not the way UK Shared Business Services (SBS) Do It!

How to evaluate price in tenders is a topic that isn’t much discussed, but one that I have been personally interested in for many years. If we are bringing together price and non-price factors (quality, social issues, service etc) in a tender evaluation, ...

Purchasing Insights - Custodial Services

Whether you're buying off a common contract or preparing your own solicitation, with shifting responsibilities and definitions, custodial services can be a slippery category to grasp. In this edition of our purchasing insights series, learn about the ...

Transportation & Logistics Services

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Smart Cities: Connected Bikes Launch in Las Vegas

Through a network of connected devices, Boston-based startup, Charles River Analytics, hopes to make cycling a safer activity by allowing bicycles to communicate with connected vehicles and smart-city technology to promote safer shared roadways. Las Vegas ...

Highways England New Procurement Approach

Chief Executive of Highways England, Jim O’Sullivan, has revealed the highways body is looking at new ways to award work based on contractor performance as part of its new procurement model. We read in New Civil Engineer that contractors could be judged ...

SpaceX and Breaking the Federal Contracting Mold

Before the holidays I came across a piece in Fortune called The Great Rocket Race . The article details the feverish efforts underway by the United Space Alliance, a decade-old joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin that launches space satellites ...

Transport for London Wins Innovative Procurement Award – A Bright Future for London Underground

The most outstanding innovative procurement activities were showcased last week at the Procura+ Awards in Sweden. We have been highlighting the shortlisted entries for the past couple of weeks, here and here . These awards are part of the ICLEI ...

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Vehicles

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How This New York Agency Is Using Drones for Conservation, Emergency Response Work

The New York Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) commissioner cites drone usage as a key driver of more efficient work and taxpayer savings. The department’s fleet of 22 drones are used for a variety of purposes across the state, from mapping ...

6 Guidelines for Drone Acquisition

Drones have many potential and diverse applications for government, but with the technological and regulatory environment quickly evolving, purchasing them presents different procurement challenges. The National Association of State Procurement Officials ...

Drone Demand Expected to Soar

Government Product News reports on a market study conducted by The Freedonia Group that predicts a surge in government spending on drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles. By 2025, the study predicts that government spending will be at $250 million, ...

Market Intelligence Study Projects Future of AI in Auto Industry

Tractica , a market intelligence firm, released a study that projects the demand for automotive artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, software, and services will explode to $14 billion by 2025. These AI systems incorporate data and advanced algorithms ...

The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency Switches from Outsourcing to Agile

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) focuses on improving road safety by setting and enforcing standards for driving and vehicles in the UK. It recently announced, during its technology transformation programme, how it is changing from using ...

Weapons & Ammunition

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New UK Military Rapid Procurement Process for Urgent Needs

In a major change in UK military policy, the emergency procurement of new equipment in response to field commanders to deal with emerging threats now has to be paid out of the UK Ministry of Defence’s own budget rather than from the UK Treasury’s (finance ...

How This New York Agency Is Using Drones for Conservation, Emergency Response Work

The New York Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) commissioner cites drone usage as a key driver of more efficient work and taxpayer savings. The department’s fleet of 22 drones are used for a variety of purposes across the state, from mapping ...

Hacking the Defense Acquisition Cycle

Product innovation in the U.S. Department of Defense follows an implicit rule: “Better, cheaper, faster—pick two.” Today, the military is simultaneously confronted with declining budgets, skyrocketing system development costs, and a diverse spectrum of ...

European Co-ordinated Defence Procurement - Funding for Two Initiatives Announced

We have written previously about the idea of European co-operation in terms of defence procurement. It has been discussed for many years, but little tangible has really happened. But last month there was an announcement of funding for two specific initiatives. ...

Good To Great: Innovation In The Industrial Base

“Thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability.” This quote did not come from a disgruntled acquisition professional in the Pentagon, but from noted author Jim Collins in his eponymous business book, Good to Great . He did not have had the third ...

UK Ministry of Defense – Is New Procurement System Running Into Trouble?

There appears to be trouble brewing over a new procurement systems implementation at the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MOD). Last year, the MOD announced that it was “changing and improving its procurement systems, to provide a more, effective ...

Defence Procurement: Why Don’t Nations Collaborate?

We found an excellent article here on the foreignpolicy.com website by Elisabeth Braw, looking at the issues around countries sharing military procurement. It is both interesting to the casual reader and informative, and raises some interesting procurement ...

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