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Global Public Procurement Conference 2018 – The Star Trek Future
Nov 1, 2018
You may remember earlier this year we published a series of articles on procurement’s role in disaster recovery from Craig Brewin. Craig is a Caribbean-based procurement professional, and he reports now from the recent Global Public Procurement Conference.
“So Star Trek I love it” said...
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs New Report on Digital Tool to Fight Public Sector Corruption
Nov 1, 2018
Examples of the use of technology in the fight against corruption is presented in a new report launched at the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC). The report has been initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. It includes an interesting juxtaposition between how men and...
NHS Price Comparison Tool Saves £288 million
Nov 1, 2018
UK NHS Improvement has announced that “Trusts across England saved £288 million in the last financial year by securing the best deals for commonly bought items, such as syringes, disposable gloves, loo roll and shoe covers.” A price comparison tool allows Trusts to view the most expensive and...
New Principles To Help Tackle Modern Slavery Announced at UN General Assembly
Nov 1, 2018
A new collaborative set of four principles to help nations tackle modern slavery issues in global supply chains has been developed by the UK, in partnership with the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The UN General Assembly last month announced the new principles which focus on ‘mobilising...
UK SMEs Still Awarded Just 19% of Public Sector Technology Contracts
Nov 1, 2018
Latest research from the Federation of Small Businesses finds that although the UK Government has introduced many improvements to its technology procurement processes to make them more open to all organisations, small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are still awarded just 19 percent of public...
Pragmatic, Progressive & Agile: Modernizing Procurement In Canada
Oct 29, 2018
Episode 11 of the Public Procurement Leaders Podcast with Guest Emilio Franco
In what will surely be a familiar refrain for many of our readers, Emilio Franco didn’t set out to become a public procurement professionals. It wasn’t until a program at his Canadian university offered a...
Supporting Public Sector Procurement: eMarketplace Helps People Get Back to Work More Quickly
Oct 23, 2018
Public Spend Forum was delighted to hear the news that the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has won the ultimate and overall prize at the 2018 CIPS Supply Management Awards Europe. The department also won the ‘Most Innovative Use of Technology’ award at the event, one of the 10 team...
18F Wants You to Buy IT Faster, Cheaper
Oct 22, 2018
The amount of time it takes for agencies to issue solicitations and the complexity people bring to their commercial IT purchases are “unnecessary,” Mark Hopson, 18F’s innovation specialist, said. When it comes to buying digital tools and services, agencies get too hung up on what they believe...
SmallGovCon Week in Review: October 15-19, 2018
Oct 20, 2018
I had a great time last week at the National HUBZone Conference in Chantilly, Virginia. If you were there, please reach out to say hi!
In this week’s edition of SmallGovCon Week In Review, we’ll look at GSA’s new eBuy pilot program, insight into the SBA OIG’s 8(a) eligibility findings,...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Oct 19, 2018
Microsoft is the latest major tech company to come under the scrutiny of its own employees for using innovation to support controversial missions of the government, and the USDS believes using tools like Slack, Skype, Google Suite and others could free up time for federal workers to focus more on...
Police Force to Pool Procurement Resources in Collaboration Programme
Oct 19, 2018
The English southeast county of Essex is planning to pool procurement resources between six other police forces in a bid to reduce costs and gain better spending power. The 7 Force Collaboration Programme is made up of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent,...
Government Voluntary Code of Conduct for Tech Partnerships with the Public Sector
Oct 19, 2018
Simplifying regulation, reducing the fragmented nature of public sector purchasing and allowing for more flexibility in NHS payment systems to allow for the introduction of new technology are all essential for better adoption of new technology, writes Lexology. The UK Government has published a...
