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Global Public Procurement Conference 2018 – The Star Trek Future
Nov 1, 2018
You may remember earlier this year we published a series of articles on procurement’s role in disaster recovery from Craig Brewin. Craig is a Caribbean-based procurement professional, and he reports now from the recent Global Public Procurement Conference.
“So Star Trek I love it” said...
EcoProcura 2018 — Conference Highlights, Interviews and Procura+ Winners
Oct 16, 2018
EcoProcura 2018, the international conference on sustainable, strategic, circular and innovation public procurement, took place earlier this month in the Netherlands. We couldn’t attend unfortunately, but here are some of the highlights from the event we thought you might find of interest.
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Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Oct 12, 2018
Google drops plans to compete for JEDI while IBM recently submitted a bid protest over the $10 billion cloud contract and HHS experiments with blockchain to transform acquisition. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for October 12, 2018.
IBM Protesting Pentagon’s JEDI...
UK Department for Work and Pensions Is ‘Overall Winner’ of CIPS Supply Management Awards
Oct 12, 2018
On October 10 the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions claimed the 2018 CIPS Supply Management Awards Europe ultimate accolade, taking the star prize of overall winner. Networked source-to-pay solutions, e-invoicing and innovative financing services global provider Basware was celebrating its...
Improving Government IT Through Effective Cyber Security Procurement
Oct 12, 2018
When it comes to buying cyber security, it’s hard to know where to even start. A constantly changing threat environment and the diversity of government IT networks make it complicated to determine how cyber security fits into the procurement lifecycle. In situations like this, a good first step...
Tackling Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain – Private Sector Needs Government Incentives
Oct 4, 2018
The UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand say other governments could do more to tackle modern slavery in global supply chains. “By working together, the UK and its partners can use their $600 billion of purchasing power as a lever to prevent forced labour in both the public and private...
Crowdsourcing: The Shortcut to Effective Market Research
Sep 28, 2018
Market research is an essential an ongoing task for any procurement professional. But so are many other aspects of procurement; contracting, negotiations, supplier reviews—you name it. We all know we should be keeping on top of market and pricing trends, but when you’re tasked with buying...
Finding the Best Cyber Security Solutions with GovShop
Sep 24, 2018
Market Research Made Easy With Public Spend Forum
As public sector organizations continue to modernize technology and bring citizen services online, cyber hackers and bad actors are designing new techniques to exploit every weakness they find. It’s a cat and mouse game that will never stop, and...
Global Lead Cities Network on Sustainable Procurement
Sep 20, 2018
An announcement was made recently at the Global Climate Action Summit: Solly Msimanga, Executive Mayor of Tshwane (South Africa) has been announced as the new chair of the Global Lead Cities Network on Sustainable Procurement (GLCN) – a group of 14 cities from around the globe committed to the...
EU Trade Agreements Map
Sep 20, 2018
This caught our eye the other day. A useful global supply chain map that shows where the EU has trade agreements, by colour coding, and what kind of agreements they are. Supply Chain Movement with Amber Road has put together this map, in fact the whole website is worth a visit if you’d like to...
Conference: Digital Transformation of Public Procurement
Sep 20, 2018
The European Commission is organising a conference to discuss the digital transformation of public procurement, which it says will “bring huge changes to the sector, but it also offers increased competitiveness of our economies. It will improve the efficiency of public services and make public...
6 Public Authorities Make the Final of the EcoProcura Awards
Sep 14, 2018
The 2018 Procura+ Awards ceremony will soon be kicking off in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Oct 3-5, as part of the 2018 EcoProcura Conference (still time to register your attendance). The awards, which recognise Sustainable Procurement, Innovation Procurement, and Procurement Initiative, have...
