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Service Design Partner Sought by DfE for Schools Buying Strategy Alpha
Jul 18, 2018
The UK Department for Education developed a Schools Buying Strategy initiative to help schools save £1billion of their current £10 billion spend on non-staff costs by 2020. It aims to help schools avoid making “poor commercial decisions”, engage effectively with suppliers, enable aggregation...
Procurement Is A Key Component In Delivering College Board’s Mission
Jul 18, 2018
A CPO is working directly with the College Board to align a procurement strategy and the procurement function with a broader organisational goal of delivering educational opportunities for students. The College Board is a not-for-profit that connects more than 7 million students across the US to...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Jul 13, 2018
OMB hopes a new strategy will accelerate cloud adoption, GSA aims to streamline acquisition for feds, and much more. This is Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for July 13, 2018.
How Machine Learning Could Help Make Sense of Gov IT Spend
The Trump administration wants the Technology Business...
Disaster and Emergency Part 4: Always Be Prepared
Jul 12, 2018
Craig Brewin continues his series on Procurement issues arising from last year’s hurricane season, as covered at the CDB special conference. The others in the series can be found here, here, and here.
One of the issues that the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and World Bank was addressing at...
Change in Procurement Approach Could Save Construction Industry Billions a Year
Jul 12, 2018
The Construction Leadership Council warns that lack of cohesive approach is costing the construction industry billions a year. The latest government-commissioned report says an overhaul of procurement practices could save the construction sector £15bn a year. It provides recommendations on how...
Highways Procurement Survey
Jul 12, 2018
A recent UK Highways/FiTZ INDEX survey has revealed that the majority of respondents (54.3%) disagreed or strongly disagreed that ‘procurement in the highways sector is fair for non-Tier One suppliers and for new entrants.’ It paints a worrying picture of the nature of procurement in the...
NHS Shared Business Services Legal Services Framework Available
Jul 12, 2018
The UK’s National Health Service Shared Business Services has launched its Legal Services Framework, to enable organisations in both NHS and wider public sector to access legal services in areas such as contract and commercial law, NHS governance and public law and employment law. The Framework...
Potential £200m Waste-Management Procurement Begins in Cornwall
Jul 12, 2018
The English county of Cornwall has begun the procurement process for a new 10-year waste management contract worth £20 million a year – this is one of the country’s largest waste-collection contracts. The contract will begin in April 2020, following the termination of the current contract, for...
Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018
Jul 12, 2018
A new report from The World Bank ‘Procuring Infrastructure PPPs’ aims to support a better policy-making process for public-private partnerships by highlighting key aspects of an economy’s regulatory framework for procuring PPPs. The 2018 report is a continuation of ‘Benchmarking PPP...
China Potential Buyer of a Stake in UK Nuclear Sites
Jul 12, 2018
The Chinese government has emerged as a potential buyer of a multibillion-pound stake in Britain’s nuclear power plants, writes The Guardian. China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) is a state-run corporation possibly interested in buying a major stake in eight power stations, including Sizewell...
Violations of Public Procurement Law – Slovakia
Jul 12, 2018
A Let’s Stop Corruption Foundation think tank pointed out a non-transparent procurement in the Slovakian ministry’s St Michal Hospital. It involved a tender for the purchase of the complex medical equipment and for catering for patients and employees. The Public Procurement Office has confirmed...
The Rise of the Microconsultants
Jul 12, 2018
One of the first — and even more than two decades later, still one of the most important — changes during the procurement reform era of the 1990s was the introduction of a “micropurchase” authority in the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1995. In the background was the desire to...
