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Find the Best Government Contractors for Cyber Security with GovShop’s Supplier Directory

Market Research Made Easy With Public Spend Forum Research Cyber security is a trending topic these days, especially for government procurement professionals supporting customers with digital services and IT requirements. As public sector organizations ...

Entering the Digital Age – A Look at Network Rail

There was a very good article this week on RailEngineer titled “Signalling procurement enters the Digital Age.” It’s an interesting read because, while it is an industry-specific subject, it is relevant to other industries, highlighting that as businesses ...

Amazon B2B Announces First Large Public Sector Contract in the UK

Last week Amazon B2B announced its first large UK public sector contract since its launch in the UK last year worth £600m, supplying the county of Yorkshire's schools, social services and emergency services. The deal is with Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation ...

The Ultimate Guide for Government Cyber Security Market Research

The cyber market is complex and fast-changing by any measure. As Public Spend Forum’s GovShop staff dug in to create a comprehensive list of cyber security suppliers relevant to government, we wanted to share a few sources and experts that we thought ...

Improving Effectiveness of Market Research on Your Procurement Team

According to most public procurement leaders, procurement market research and expertise requires significant improvement across teams. During a recent Public Spend Forum Leaders Exchange Meeting, Raj Sharma, Chairman and CEO of PSF, kicked off the discussion ...

Information is Your Superpower. You can be a Procurement Superhero too!

Why Information About Markets is Your Superpower in Government Procurement “A Sari. Can you tell me more?” A few years ago, I was on my way to India. As I was about to leave for the airport, my wife pulled me aside and said she needed me to buy ...

Seven Government Technology Startups to Watch in 2019

These GovTech Companies are Making a Difference with Their Solutions At Public Spend Forum, we are passionate about the power of civic technology to improve government programs and the lives of the citizens they serve. We were proud to feature several ...

Progress Since the 2016 Anti-Corruption Summit

In 2016 43 governments made over 600 anti-corruption commitments at the Anti-Corruption Summit in London. To keep up the pressure on countries to stick to their commitments, Transparency International UK launched the Anti-Corruption Pledge Tracker in ...

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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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Entering the Digital Age – A Look at Network Rail

There was a very good article this week on RailEngineer titled “Signalling procurement enters the Digital Age.” It’s an interesting read because, while it is an industry-specific subject, it is relevant to other industries, highlighting that as businesses ...

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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Texas Town Uses ‘Public-Pizza Partnership’ to Fix an All Too Common Problem

Bartonville, Texas has deployed a different type of public-private partnership for an infrastructure project, what one official has dubbed a “public-pizza partnership.” Bartonville Town Administrator Michael Montgomery discussed the unusual way the community ...

£5bn in UK Funds for Wales Nuclear Plant

A proposed nuclear site in Wales, the Wylfa nuclear plant, will be funding in a tri-partite agreement between Hitachi, state-backed Japanese entities and the UK Government. The UK business secretary has announced that the UK will be using public money ...

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 ...

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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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Find the Best Government Contractors for Cyber Security with GovShop’s Supplier Directory

Market Research Made Easy With Public Spend Forum Research Cyber security is a trending topic these days, especially for government procurement professionals supporting customers with digital services and IT requirements. As public sector organizations ...

The Ultimate Guide for Government Cyber Security Market Research

The cyber market is complex and fast-changing by any measure. As Public Spend Forum’s GovShop staff dug in to create a comprehensive list of cyber security suppliers relevant to government, we wanted to share a few sources and experts that we thought ...

Seven Government Technology Startups to Watch in 2019

These GovTech Companies are Making a Difference with Their Solutions At Public Spend Forum, we are passionate about the power of civic technology to improve government programs and the lives of the citizens they serve. We were proud to feature several ...

Improving Technology Procurement and Innovation in the Government Marketplace

On Wednesday, June 6, Public Spend Forum convened a Technology Procurement Symposium to identify barriers to government’s adoption of emerging technology and to highlight companies of all sizes that are making a difference in the civic tech space. Held ...

Public Spend Forum's Public Procurement Weekly Roundup

OMB hopes a new strategy will accelerate cloud adoption, GSA aims to streamline acquisition for feds, and much more. This is Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for July 13, 2018. How Machine Learning Could Help Make Sense of Gov IT Spend The ...

Crown Marketplace To Transform How Public Sector Buys Common Goods and Services

The UK central government buying organisation Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has made progress into creating Crown Marketplace, destined to change how the public sector buys its common goods and services as the next generation of Digital Marketplace in ...

Public Spend Forum's Public Procurement Weekly Roundup

USDS debuts new acquisition training program for digital specialists, recent FITARA scorecard shows most federal agencies backslid in their implementation of the IT acquisition law, and GSA wants to make it easier for agencies to acquire cybersecurity ...

Algorithms and Decision Making in Public Sector - Report

The UK Government’s Science and Technology Committee has released a report as the GDPR becomes effective, and in the wake of the recent controversy around Cambridge Analytica. The report acknowledges the huge opportunities that algorithms can bring to ...

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Healthcare (Products and Services)

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Virgin Care - Should It Pay Back UK’s National Health Service?

It was reported recently that Virgin Care, a private sector provider that has considerable business with the UK’s National Health Service, has agreed a settlement with various NHS Trusts after Virgin challenged the results of a procurement process. Virgin ...

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 ...

An Unsolicited Proposal for a Microconsulting Services Platform

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 ...

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, ...

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Transportation & Logistics Services

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Entering the Digital Age – A Look at Network Rail

There was a very good article this week on RailEngineer titled “Signalling procurement enters the Digital Age.” It’s an interesting read because, while it is an industry-specific subject, it is relevant to other industries, highlighting that as businesses ...

Funding Boost for UK Regional Transport

The UK Secretary for Transport has announced a £2 million funding boost to improve customer journeys and connectivity in the South East of England. The Department for Transport says the plans will allow people in Kent, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire ...

How Small UK Firm Won Major Tech Contracts with Large US Public Authorities

This week Reuters ran a very interesting article, an interview in fact with the owner of UK small business Masabi which provides mobile ticketing solutions for transport systems. The attention-grabbing opening line read “How does a small British company ...

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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Funding Boost for UK Regional Transport

The UK Secretary for Transport has announced a £2 million funding boost to improve customer journeys and connectivity in the South East of England. The Department for Transport says the plans will allow people in Kent, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire ...

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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UK MoD Faces £2.9bn Nuclear Funding Gap and Not Enough Skilled Personnel

In more defence news this week, Forces Network , explains that the UK Ministry of Defence is facing a £2.9bn gap in its programme to maintain and renew the country’s Trident nuclear deterrent. The National Audit Office (NAO) has said that the MoD is ...

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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