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CMA Says Government Staff Need Training on Market Analysis
Mar 14, 2019
We wrote last month about the UK Gov outsourcing playbook to help improve government procurement, how government works with industry and deliver better public services. Catering Insight this month writes that the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) recommends that staff need to be trained in...
Another Valuable Level of Scrutiny on the Spending of Public Money
Mar 14, 2019
It is generally accepted in government that greater budget scrutiny means better outcomes for citizens. So a proposed budget committee is being considered to allow for greater proactive scrutiny of government spending over the medium to longer-term. The UK Chartered Institute of Public Finance and...
New EU Regulations for Drone Safety and Privacy
Mar 14, 2019
The EU Commission, with the support of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), is applying the highest safety standards achieved in manned aviation to drones. The rules aim to strike a balance between the obligations of drone manufacturers and operators in terms of safety, respect for...
Social Value in UK Public Procurement
Mar 11, 2019
Peter Smith recently spent a stimulating morning at a round-table discussion with Demos, one of the more thoughtful political “think tanks” in the UK (cross-party from a political standpoint, innovative and research-driven).
He writes: While the broad topic was supposed to be “public...
New Meeting Rules for Effective Meetings Within Your Procurement Organization
Mar 11, 2019
Spoiler alert: it’s all about preparation.
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and will never achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’ – Dave Barry, American Humorist
Meetings: where minutes are kept and hours are lost....
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Mar 8, 2019
DHS to end EAGLE II and launch NextGen program for new contract vehicles, FBI is investigating the JEDI cloud procurement contract, and officials look at what governments can do to better use disruptive tech. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for March 8, 2019.
DHS to Move...
The Best Free Tools to Take the GovCon Market by Storm
Mar 8, 2019
A comprehensive list of free GovCon tools contractors can use to stay up to date, respond to market trends and, snag those contracts.
We all know that the GovCon market has some of the fiercest competition in the US. With over 435,000 registered and active contractors and most competitive bids...
How to Find Qualified Government Contractors
Mar 7, 2019
A look at the ways market experts determine which suppliers are reliable contractors and which will only cause problems
Suppliers and reliable contractors are vital to almost every business. As such, your relationship with the government contractors you choose to do business with will be some of...
Study: Agencies See More Success By Mixing Technologies
Mar 7, 2019
According to a Deloitte report, new technologies working together, rather than a single innovative technology assigned to a problem, are more empowering to agencies in government transformation. “Finding ways to integrate a constellation of new technologies into a new operational paradigm is the...
Transformative Action Award 2019 Has Been Launched
Mar 7, 2019
The 2019 Transformative Action Award was launched at ‘Change the Change’, an international conference on climate change, organised by the Spanish Ministry for the Environment, the Basque Country, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the City of San Sebastián. The Europe-wide...
Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index
Mar 7, 2019
The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. More than two-thirds of...
Citizens’ Satisfaction With The Way NHS Run Lowest in Ten Years
Mar 7, 2019
The Independent writes that the result of the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, published this week, show the number of people “very” or “quite” satisfied with the way the UK National Health Service is run fell to 53 percent. This is a drop of three percentage points from 2017, and...
