The UK Dept for Education Is Looking for Partner to Create Digital Procurement Tool
Aug 8, 2019
In a bid to help schools save money, the Department for Education is spending £400,000 on sourcing a digital tool to help streamline procurement. The long-term saving is for £1bn of the current £10bn spend on non-staff costs by 2020. The department is looking for a partner to help it develop and...
Scottish Government Launches £30m Cloud Procurement Framework
Aug 8, 2019
The Scottish government has published a new cloud procurement framework with 14 providers approved to bid for contracts estimated to be worth £30m – writes Government Computing. The new framework supersedes the government’s four-year Hosting Services Framework and has been designed to enable...
VR Adopted By All Three UK Military Services
Aug 1, 2019
The armed forces may not be the first sector we think about when considering uses of Virtual Reality – gaming, film, construction purposes all come to mind. But VR is being used and has been adopted by UK military for training purposes for some time in all three services (army, navy and air...
Head of UK Government Investments To Chair MoD Equipment Agency
Aug 1, 2019
Chief executive of UK Government Investments, Mark Russell, is leaving the post to chair the Ministry of Defence’s buying agency Defence Equipment & Support. He pledges to “partner more effectively with private sector suppliers” at the defence buying body. He said: “I am greatly looking...
Kazakhstan Bans State Procurement of Foreign Cars for Two Years
Aug 1, 2019
The government of Kazakhstan adopted a decree which obliges the country’s authorities to buy passenger cars only from domestic manufacturers. “Goods produced by a legal entity of the Republic of Kazakhstan with a CT-KZ goods origin certificate are allowed to participate in public procurement....
National Infrastructure Commission Releases Procurement Assessment Tool
Aug 1, 2019
The tool is intended to improve UK national infrastructure procurement and ensure that government selection of infrastructure procurement models is made with a robust consideration of broader factors beyond cost. Public bodies will be able to analyse the costs and benefits of financing and...
How NASA Wants to Explore AI
Jul 23, 2019
NASA is seeking to address barriers with advanced technology in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Specifically, the organization is looking to apply AI to aeronautics, operations, human capital, and IT support.
Improvements to projects can take significant strides with machine...
First Open Source Knowledge Graph on European Public Procurement
Jul 19, 2019
The ‘TheyBuyForYou’ project brings together researchers, innovators and public administrations from five European countries who are working on guidelines for procurement data visualisation. An international research team with open data specialists from the University of Southampton have...
Jaggaer and JP Morgan Partner to Increase Purchasing Oversight for Education, Public Sector and Commercial Industries
Jul 18, 2019
Spend management software provider Jaggaer (SaaS-based S2P, eProcurement solutions with advanced Spend Analytics, Sourcing, Supplier Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Savings Tracking, and intelligent workflow capabilities all on a single platform), which is widely used in the public...
Hungarian Payment Deadlines Among Strictest in the EU
Jul 18, 2019
“Hungarian firms tend to determine increasingly strict deadlines, leading to many clients asking for delays, which may become a challenge for companies in case of an economic downturn, according to a report by debt management firm Intrum,” reports The Budapest Business Journal. In a recent...
Highways England Launches £1.25bn Procurement for Stonehenge Tunnel
Jul 18, 2019
A dual carriageway scheme of 8 miles long with a twin-bore tunnel of 2 miles is set to be constructed through the world heritage site that is Stonehenge. Highways England is pushing ahead with the procurement despite planning permission not yet being received (an 18-month procurement process) and...
Latvian Defence Ministry Acquiring Armoured Vehicles
Jul 18, 2019
To modernise its defence vehicles and improve the National Armed Forces’ mobility, Latvian ministry of defence has approached 12 countries to ascertain their suitability for a planned 10-year contract to supply of armoured vehicles to the Latvian military as part of a major procurement. A...
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