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...
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.
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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...
Techniques for Innovation in Government Procurement
Mar 7, 2019
The Telegraph has published three examples of how Government can deliver innovation using the public procurement rules. Government is often criticised for not doing enough to encourage innovation when procuring contracts, it says, but generally, public-sector procurement is better than the negative...
Less Than One-Third UK Police Forces Access Data in Cloud
Mar 7, 2019
The UK government’s Cloud First policy advises that all public sector organisations should consider cloud solutions above all else when procuring new or existing services. But despite these guidelines, figures released this week show amongst UK police forces less than one third (29%) are...
Windows 10 Licences Are UK NHS Biggest Public Spending on IT Contracts
Feb 28, 2019
The Department of Health’s Windows 10 contract was the second-biggest public sector IT deal signed last year (after the MOD). The government spent a total of £1.3bn on 162 new public sector IT contracts with its top ten suppliers last year, writes Computer Weekly. According to Tussell, which...
Post-Brexit Membership of WTO Procurement Pact Secured
Feb 28, 2019
The World Trade Organisation has confirmed that the UK will join the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) as an independent member if it leaves the EU without a Brexit agreement. The UK will continue to access the £1.3 trillion a year market in government procurement contracts after it leaves...
Complexities on Procurement Practices in Scottish Construction Sector
Feb 28, 2019
Scotland’s Supplier Development Programme (SDP) provides free training for SMEs to help them bid for public sector work. Scotland spends £11 billion annually in the public sector. The SDP programme manager has given official evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy, Jobs and Fair...
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