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Global Public Procurement Community – Progress and Next Steps on Public Spend Forum
Dec 6, 2017
Last week, Public Spend Forum founder and CEO Raj Sharma was over from Washington DC visiting the UK (not from Chicago as we mistakenly claimed in our webinar!). While he was here we took the opportunity to hold said webinar to give PSF members and anyone interested (solution providers, or other...
Buying Procurement Technology? Listen to this CPO’s Advice
Dec 6, 2017
Last week we re-launched our podcasting channel with a new series called Public Procurement Leaders. In each episode, Chairman and CEO of Public Spend Forum Raj Sharma sits down with leaders from the public and private sector to get their perspectives and insights.Given our recent work around...
‘Reinventing Government,’ 25 Years Later
Dec 6, 2017
In 1993, the government began shifting its focus to performance, but the question remains: Has the procurement system improved?
We are coming up next year on the 25th anniversary of the country’s first and perhaps only governmentwide management reform program organized around a coherent theme:...
GSA Gets Extension in FBI Headquarters Search
Dec 5, 2017
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will allow for an extension to unveil a revised Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters plan. In return, the General Services Administration and the FBI will be asked to provide more detail on how they will finance the 2.1...
Economic Dependence Affiliation: A One-Way Street
Dec 5, 2017
Under the SBA’s economic dependence affiliation rule, two companies can be deemed affiliated when one company is responsible for a large portion of the other company’s revenues over time. But must both companies count one another as affiliates—or does the rule only apply when the...
Unbalanced Government Spending for IoT
Dec 5, 2017
Unfortunately for smaller innovative vendors and the civilian sector of the federal government, much of the IoT spending is consolidated within the Department of Defense and among a few large vendors. FCW examines how civilian agencies can increase their participation in this innovation wave and...
Procurement Collaboration – More On Our New paper
Dec 4, 2017
We recently announced the publication of our Public Spend Forum research paper, very kindly sponsored by our friends at BravoSolution, and titled simply but accurately; Procurement Collaboration in the UK Public Sector. The research work was carried out earlier this year, and involved an on-line...
It Is Time for Public Sector Attitudes Towards Cyber Insurance To Change
Dec 1, 2017
CPO (chief privacy officer) magazine – providing data privacy, protection and cyber security news and insights – highlights the growing perils of hackers and malicious attacks on public sector organisations. “The last decade has seen attacks driven by ideology, greed and in some cases simple...
Unique Series of Short Videos on Successful Innovation Procurement Implementations from eafip
Dec 1, 2017
The eafip initiative has created a series of short videos showcasing successful European innovation procurement implementations. They feature individuals, including both public procurers and suppliers, talking about how they successfully developed and put into practice innovation procurement...
Public Sector Organisations in Changing Approach to Delivering Services Online
Dec 1, 2017
GOSS, web and digital platform company, has produced its third Public Sector Digital Self-Service Survey covering 2017-18. It is one of the UK’s largest surveys of its kind. The 200-plus individuals (of CEOs, IT managers, procurers and purchasers) from 179 Public Sector organisations contributing...
Clean Contracting Manifesto Launched by Transparency International
Dec 1, 2017
Transparency International, together with CoST (the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative), Open Contracting Partnership (OCP), Hivos and Article19, have launched the Clean Contracting Manifesto. “The whole lifecycle of public procurement must be implemented to the highest possible...
Another New Face of Government IT Contractors
Dec 1, 2017
As some blog readers may know, I am quite active on Facebook and have been so for a number of years. However, I never joined LinkedIn, assuming it was just for people looking for jobs (which I’m not).
But after getting a number of requests to “connect” and seeing that the site also had...
