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HS2 – Politicians Cannot Guarantee Work for Local Workers in Fair Bidding Scenario
Nov 6, 2017
Politicians – don’t you just love ‘em? With their sensible views and analytical approach to issues, their propriety when it comes to sex and cash, their ability to stay rational rather than being swayed by short-term electoral or personal gain, they really are an example to us all.
Or maybe...
UK’s New Health and Social Care Network – More Open Market for Suppliers
Nov 3, 2017
The Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) is a new data network for health and care organisations, across the UK; it is designed to help integrate and transform health and social care services by giving them access to, and enabling them to share, information more widely and efficiently. This...
Highways England New Procurement Approach
Nov 2, 2017
Chief Executive of Highways England, Jim O’Sullivan, has revealed the highways body is looking at new ways to award work based on contractor performance as part of its new procurement model. We read in New Civil Engineer that contractors could be judged by the client on how well a scheme is...
HHS’ Opioid Code-a-Thon: Challenges Go Mainstream and Mission-Critical
Oct 31, 2017
I have been a fan of challenges—also known as procurement contests—for years. I wrote about them for the first time in 2009 when one of the only examples around was a contest DARPA had launched in to see who could develop an all-terrain vehicle, and have returned to the topic several times...
Webinar Recording: Modernizing IT Through Agile Share-in-Savings Contracts
Oct 30, 2017
To watch the full video, scroll down!Governments at all levels are grappling with the need to invest in new technologies and modernize their legacy systems. But lack of resources and capital investment dollars can often prevent that from happening. Vendors are ready to take risks and put more...
Watch Presentations from the Public Procurement Technology Symposium
Oct 27, 2017
Access videos from each symposium presentation! (To navigate to other videos in this playlist, go to the left-hand corner of the video frame and click the playlist icon.)
You can watch videos from the following presentations:
Welcome to the Public Procurement Technology Symposium
Raj Sharma,...
Open Contracting Innovation Award Goes to Telus from The Sinar Project for Putting Transparency in Government Contracting
Oct 27, 2017
Back in June we reported on the Open Contracting Innovation Challenge – a competition run by the Open Contracting Partnership and the Open Data Institute to recognise ground-breaking data-driven ideas for improving public procurement. Open contracting is about using open data in public...
Promoting the Public Procurement Function
Oct 26, 2017
Promoting the Procurement Function may be a new concept for some in the Public Procurement profession; however, all public procurement personnel have been and will continue to be involved in “promoting” the procurement function. Some may be aware of their promotional and marketing activities...
Why State and Local Governments Need Certified Procurement Professionals
Oct 25, 2017
With State and Local Government spending exceeding $2.8 trillion dollars; there are over a trillion reasons for State and Local Governments to have Certified Public Procurement Professionals. As both state and local government spending continues to rise, the need for procurement reform has risen to...
Avoiding Using Unsolicited Proposals to Circumvent Regulations and Best Practices when Procuring PPPs
Oct 25, 2017
Emerging International Trends
Over the past year, I have become increasingly aware of an emerging trend by governments to consider Unsolicited Proposals (USPs) as a panacea to unlock the inertia that they face in launching Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) or for attracting much needed foreign...
NAO Publishes Investigation into NDA and Reveals Some Disturbing Issues
Oct 17, 2017
We featured the procurement problems at the nuclear de-commissioning authority last year in some depth. A mis-handled procurement process led to unsuccessful bidders taking the Authority to court and winning their challenge, which has cost the British taxpayer some £100 million.
Now, the National...
A Successful Public Sector Procurement Transformation Story
Oct 12, 2017
It makes a nice change to actually report on a public sector ‘good news’ story. This one in particular is a successful procurement transformation story in the UK Blue Light, or emergency services, sector. It was undertaken by Mike Fairbotham, Associate Director of Procurement and Logistics at...
