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Turkey pledges more transparency in public spending
Nov 7, 2019
Following criticism that the country has become more secretive about how it spends taxpayer money, the Turkish government has pledged to reveal more details about public spending. A new website will publish spending and budget details. It will also publish the results of public tenders online. Read...
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...
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association’s Global Summit – Applications in Every Industry
Nov 7, 2019
At a two-day summit the VR/AR Association saw, among other things, the successful test of airborne virtual and augmented reality for military training purposes and the launch of an international women’s committee dedicated to closing the industry’s gender gap. The summit also discussed what is...
Report Finds Growth in Cloud ITSM Markets and Highlights Major Suppliers
Nov 6, 2019
The global cloud information technology service management (ITSM) market size is forecasted to grow from an estimated value of $4.4 billion in 2019 to $10.4 billion by 2024. The ITSM market is made of solutions service portfolio management, problem and incident management, service desk software,...
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...
Businesses in NW England told Innovation is way to win public sector contracts
Oct 31, 2019
Ambitious companies in the North West of England have been urged to increase their focus on public sector contracts to grow their businesses. Representatives of over 40 firms attended a supplier engagement event organised by Salford City Council, in conjunction with Bloom Procurement Services, and...
Procurement, integration and adaptation are biggest barriers to AI, study finds
Oct 31, 2019
Global Government Forum reports that the greatest obstacles to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the public sector lie in building procurement capabilities, integrating AI with existing systems, and adapting systems to specific delivery environments. This is according to...
Top Suppliers Highlighted in Global Military Virtual Training Market Report
Oct 31, 2019
The “Military Virtual Training Market” shares the potential supply and demand, value, competition of the market as well as the top players to watch within this emerging market. Different organizations, manufacturers, and vendors also play a role in the market.
These top players are employing...
AI is the capability that will take digital service forward in government
Oct 29, 2019
Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the UK Cabinet Office, is tasked with transforming the provision of online public services and leading the digital transformation of government generally. It collaborates with departments to help with their own transformation and works with them to help...
Innovation Procurement – The power of the public purse
Oct 24, 2019
EU-funded innovation procurements in the ICT domain are updated in a new brochure from the European Commission. Find out how they are bringing ICT-based solutions to the market to address challenges of public interest in sectors like health and elderly care, transport, climate change, energy,...
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...
Cyber Security Experts Working With Defence Industry
Oct 24, 2019
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is working closely with the UK defence industry to identify vulnerabilities and help reduce the risks of cyber attacks on sensitive or secret information. The NCSC says it has dealt with 658 cyber attacks on the UK in the past 12 months. So the UK...
