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Performance Measurement in Public Procurement
Apr 2, 2019
Ways to measure and manage the value behind public procurement
Each year, the government has an allotment of public procurement spending to be doled out amongst various goods and services. These items help the government accomplish goals, ensure operations continue to run, and meet any public...
France – Making Public Procurement of Food More Sustainable
Mar 29, 2019
Online sustainable responsible business portal FOOTPRINT reports this week that France has set up a National Council for Collective Catering (CNRC) to ensure that at least half the food bought by the public sector in the country will be “organic, sustainable or under official signs of...
Scotland: Work-Based Learning – Fast Return for Learner and Employer
Mar 29, 2019
Scotland Excel’s Academy has boosted its accredited courses for 2019 after increased demand for more leadership and management courses. The Academy’s Strategic Organisational Development Manager said the Academy was designed initially to train public procurement specialists but they soon...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Mar 29, 2019
GSA picks Ernst and Young to phase out the DUNS number, DHS is funding a new immersive cyber-training platform, and a new program is looking to test, fund and build federal employees’ ideas for using tech to improve their agencies. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for...
How Agile Procurement is Here to Change the Face of Government Contracting
Mar 29, 2019
How Agile project management practices can save the government contracting industry by allowing agencies to stay ahead of their problems
We can feel it every time we respond to a 200 page RFP or insist contracts can accommodate every possible future scenario. Public procurement has gone stale. The...
Please Procure Responsibly: The State Of Public Service Commissioning
Mar 28, 2019
Independent, non-party, charitable think tank Reform has published a research paper this week on improving government outsourcing (rather than banning it). Government needs private firms and charities to deliver public services, it says, but should improve the rules for outsourcing. The report...
Healthcare Solutions Partner Publishes EU Exit Mitigation Plan
Mar 28, 2019
UK-based healthcare solutions partner HealthTrust Europe (HTE), this week published a mitigation plan to counter risk from the UK’s proposed exit from the EU to support the continuity of high-quality patient care. The plan includes updated contract terms and conditions, fixed pricing and...
British MoD To Buy Fleet of Boeing Surveillance Planes
Mar 28, 2019
The UK Ministry of Defence is to buy five new surveillance (E-7 early warning radar) planes from the US aircraft manufacturer Boeing in a deal worth almost $2bn. The deal is also expected to provide opportunities for British suppliers in the area of training and support arrangements. But critics...
Gov.UK – Government Leads The Way With New Tool in Tackling Modern Slavery
Mar 28, 2019
At an event in London this week, co-hosted with the Ethical Trading Initiative and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, aimed at driving change in public sector procurement and addressing issues of modern slavery, the Home Office launched a free Modern Slavery Assessment Tool....
Women-led Startups and Small Businesses Have Advice for Government
Mar 27, 2019
“Tell your company’s story and how you will help make things better,” was the simple yet powerful advice provided by Kate Lucey of H.S. Dracones to other women-led startups and tech companies at yesterday’s Breakthrough for Startups and Small Business session.
H.S. Dracones, like other...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Mar 22, 2019
DHS demonstrates how agencies can address fear of failure and enhance innovation efforts with cultural support, CenturyLink authorized to begin selling on GSA’s EIS contract, and GSA issues RFQ for new CoE acquisition model. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for March 22,...
Troubled Interserve Awarded £660m in Contracts Prior To Collapse
Mar 21, 2019
In the run up to its collapse, UK government key contractor was handed £660m worth of public contracts. “Rehana Azam, the national secretary of the GMB, said the Interserve case showed how ‘obsessed’ with outsourcing the government had become. ‘Awarding hundreds of millions in taxpayer...
