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World Bank Public Procurement Benchmarking Report 2017
Apr 13, 2017
At the April 2017 PSF Global Leaders Exchange meeting, Tania Ghossein, Program Coordinator, presented and facilitated the discussion on the World Bank’s Benchmarking Public Procurement (BPP) 2017 report.
The BPP report presents global data and analysis on legal and regulatory environments that...
IoT, AI, and Automation are Coming: What is the Future of Public Procurement
Apr 4, 2017
Last Wednesday we attended Procurement Week at London Docklands’ The Crystal – amazing views of the Emirates Cable Cars across the Thames. This conference is one of a kind in that it spans three days, is truly international, attracting delegates from all over the world, and focuses on all...
Procurement of Professional Services – Three Reasons Why the Public Sector Uses Consultants
Apr 3, 2017
We threatened recently to run a series on buying professional services in the context of public sector organisations and buyers. That came about in part through a report that identified spend by central government in the UK on consultants was rising again after some years of decline.
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What Public Procurement Can Learn From the Private Sector and Strategic Sourcing
Apr 3, 2017
Within private sector procurement, there are a number of advanced technologies that are beginning to reshape how we think about the role of “buying.” Perhaps the best place to start is in the world of sourcing itself. When I first started in the profession, top performing private sector...
The Four Value Levers of Public Procurement: The Keys to Value and Success
Mar 29, 2017
The Keys to Value and Success in the Public Sector
Working within the public sector has its challenges. All too often, the entire public sector market—buyers and suppliers alike—is subjected to arbitrary policies drafted by groups that have little understanding of how to generate value or...
Public Spend Forum Newswire | 3/28/2017
Mar 29, 2017
Will Trump Step in Between Palantir and the Pentagon?
Fortune Magazine reports on the tension between Silicon Valley company Palantir and the Department of Defense (DoD). The DoD is looking to update its Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGSA), a massive data management system that Palantir...
10 Surprising Things You May Not Know About Professional Buying Organisations (PBOs)
Mar 28, 2017
Think you know all about public sector owned professional buying organisations (PBOs) and what they do? Here are ten interesting facts that might just surprise you:
Public sector owned professional buying organisations were set up by local government to support local government procurement....
Preventing Corruption Across The Procurement (Acquisition) Life Cycle
Mar 21, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) presents a framework and well researched data on addressing corruption in public procurement. The framework leverages the widely utilized procurement process paradigm (pre-tendering, tendering, post-tendering), and lays out drivers...
Finding a New Job: Four Factors Procurement Professionals Should Consider
Mar 20, 2017
During my twenty something years in procurement line-management roles, I moved organisations five times and considered many more moves – and indeed failed to get numerous roles that I did apply for! I felt that there were four key factors to consider when I was thinking about whether it was a...
Five Alternative Approaches to Lots and Lotting for Contracts
Mar 15, 2017
We have some other written articles around the issues of lots and lotting (splitting up their contract requirements into smaller contracts), and the confusion in the UK around how far contracting authorities need to go in terms of lotting, or at least showing that they have considered lotting. We...
Latest World Bank Benchmarking Public Procurement Report Highlights Global Challenges
Mar 13, 2017
According to the 2017 Benchmarking Public Procurement (BPP) report from the World Bank, governments all over the world are still struggling with transparency and efficiency in their public procurement. Each year, the World Bank compiles data from 123 countries to assess the state of government...
Why Should We Care About The Public Procurement Workforce?
Feb 27, 2017
Nearly any expert you talk to in government procurement will tell you that the workforce needs more support and better training. But why? What makes the public procurement workforce so important to the work of government? In this excerpt from our study on public procurement skills, we look at why...
