New South Wales New Approach to IT Procurement
Aug 9, 2018
The NSW government is completely rethinking how agencies and suppliers interact in terms of IT procurement. It has developed a new procurement platform, buy.nsw, which aims to simplify the process of buying and selling IT. Following months of consultation with government CIOs, government buyers and...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Jul 20, 2018
Use of CSO acquisition procedures is ramping up quickly across federal agencies, a recent survey finds acquisition professionals don’t find innovation important to successful procurement, and 1,500 public organizations have signed new contracts to buy directly from Amazon. This is Public Spend...
Building Industry Must Not Go For Cheapest
Jul 18, 2018
That ‘value’ should mean more than the objective of achieving lowest cost is an attitude that is rippling through the construction industry as much as in any other. A UK Construction Leadership Council member and global director at Rider Levett Bucknall, Ann Bentley, explained that the industry...
European Single Procurement Document – An Outline for Suppliers
Jul 18, 2018
The European Single Procurement Document (eESPD) came into mandatory use in April 2018, it has not been adopted as widely as it should to streamline the process of bidding for government contracts. So Supply Chain Digital has run a commentary outlining what suppliers need to know and understand...
Foreign Aid Contracts Awarded to Firm Accused of Bribery
Jul 18, 2018
The Australian government awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid contracts to a company that was found to have been systematically bribing high-level Vietnamese officials – writes The Guardian. ‘In total, the company received 83 contracts worth $489m from Australia’s aid...
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...
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...
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