Sustainable Cities Platform and the Transformative Action Award
Jul 31, 2018
The Transformative Action Award rewards ongoing or concluded innovative local and regional initiatives that achieve a socio-cultural, socio-economic and technological transformation of societies by using the pathways identified in the Basque Declaration. The award is co-organised by ICLEI...
Recap & Recording: Smarter Procurement in the Public Sector
Jul 17, 2018
Public Spend Forum runs a series of best practice public procurement webinars which explore how procurement professionals can and are using technology, leaner processes and smarter ways of working to deliver more value to their customers. This one focused on two case studies from New York City and...
Scotland – Workshop on How To Bid For Public Contracts
May 4, 2018
A joint initiative between Scotland’s Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils is supporting local businesses in developing their capability to bid successfully for public procurement contracts. The Positive Procurement Programme (PPP) takes attendees through what a good tender looks like. It’s...
GO Public Procurement Excellence Award Winners Announced
Apr 26, 2018
The UK’s Government Opportunities (GO) is the leading media channel for all issues relating to buying for and supplying to the public sector. GO also hosts the UK National GO Awards – which are an annual opportunity for public, private and third-sector organisations to demonstrate and get...
Procura+ Sustainable and Innovation Procurement Seminar Highlights
Mar 29, 2018
The 15th Procura+ Seminar on Sustainable and Innovation Procurement took place last week in Oslo, with ICLEI and the SPP Regions project partnering to host. Procura+ Network participants, practitioners, experts, and policy makers from across Europe gathered to hear the Vice Mayor of Oslo...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Dec 21, 2018
Amazon formally joins the latest legal battle over the right to build the Pentagon’s $10 billion war cloud, DHS prefers existing IT services contracts to EAGLE recompete, and federal government acquisition could look a lot like the consumer experience of shopping online by the end of 2019. All...
France – Public Procurement Code Update
Dec 20, 2018
France has published a new Public Procurement Code which integrates procurement and concession contract rules into a single code. It was published in the Official Journal of the French Republic on December 5, 2018, and aims to modernise French regulations and finalise the transposition of the...
Waste and Resources Strategy Pushes Sustainable Procurement Up Policy Agenda
Dec 20, 2018
UK “Government departments will be asked to consider the environmental implications of major procurements, as part of an increased focus on providing greater social value through procurement processes,” writes Civil Service World this week. “A long-awaited resources and waste...
More News on Cartel Agreements and Public Procurements
Dec 20, 2018
The Baltic News Network reports that companies have been fined 33,268 euros ‘for distorting competition in public procurements.’ Latvia’s Competition Council has launched an investigation into possible illegally coordinated activities between several market participants in procurements of...
UK Government Proactively Collaborating with Vendors to Address Supply Chain Risk
Dec 20, 2018
Very recently we heard that SAP Ariba had been asked to meet with the UK Government’s Anti-Corruption Champion, John Penrose MP also Minister of State for Northern Ireland. A team consisting of Justin Sadler-Smith (Head of SAP Ariba UK & Ireland), Chris Francis (Director Government Relations,...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Dec 14, 2018
GSA extends EIS transition deadline and plans to pilot an e-commerce platform next year while the GAO recently dismissed IBM’s JEDI protest. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for December 14, 2018.
GSA’s Move to Extend EIS Telecom Contract Transition Could be...
Social Value Act Misused by Some UK Councils
Dec 13, 2018
We’ve written previously about how the UK government is strengthening the Social Value Act to require commissioners to explicitly evaluate social value when they tender a contract. Consideration of the wider social value must be added by each bidder. But CivilSociety reports from the annual...
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