Start-Up Solution Helps Suppliers Find and Win Public Contracts
Feb 22, 2018
Newly announced, Tenderlake is a UK start-up of 2016 with a SaaS solution that leverages Artificial Intelligence to help organisations find and win more public tenders. It scours websites and marketing materials, then finds customers with open opportunities to supply the products and services and...
Public Sector Organisations in Changing Approach to Delivering Services Online
Dec 1, 2017
GOSS, web and digital platform company, has produced its third Public Sector Digital Self-Service Survey covering 2017-18. It is one of the UK’s largest surveys of its kind. The 200-plus individuals (of CEOs, IT managers, procurers and purchasers) from 179 Public Sector organisations contributing...
Social Value Act Should Be Extended To Cover More Spend
Dec 1, 2017
A new report ‘Our Money Our Future’ by former MP and author of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, Chris White, and Social Enterprise UK, claims the UK Government should extend the Social Value Act to include more public spending. Currently the Act ‘shapes’ around £25bn of public...
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...
Direct Awards of Public Works in Portugal
Sep 29, 2017
Lisbon City Council has been investigated by a Portuguese newspaper for the direct award of a €5.179.873,44 public works project to one of the largest construction companies in the country. The contract is for the repair of the Miradouro de Sao Pedro de Alcantara, one of the city’s scenic...
Modernizing Legacy Systems through a Share-in-Savings Approach
Sep 21, 2017
Government professionals looking to modernize their legacy IT systems have reason to be optimistic as we begin the new fiscal year. Building on the Trump Administration’s sustained interest in improving government technology (a trail well blazed by his predecessor) is a renewed appetite for...
Agile Procurement for the Public Sector
Aug 19, 2017
TRADITIONAL PRACTICES VS MODERN-DAY REALITIES
Public sector procurement practices are based on the fundamental principles that procurement must be fair, open, and transparent. That you must say what you will do, say so in a public fashion, and do what you said you would do. This is founded on the...
Why Government Contractors Don’t Have Private Sector Clients
Aug 9, 2017
If you pay attention to the federal market, you’ll notice something strange. Few small businesses successfully manage to support commercial and federal sector clients at the same time. Here’s some data: Over the past five years about 80 companies have scored repeat performances on Washington...
The Five Ways to Get the Most Out of Category Management
Aug 9, 2017
In the never-ending quest to deliver more value, procurement organizations are trying to squeeze more savings and innovation out of spend categories. But, eventually the well starts to run dry, and when that happens, you need to either get more out of that well (fracking for spend savings,...
6 Guidelines for Drone Acquisition
Aug 2, 2017
Drones have many potential and diverse applications for government, but with the technological and regulatory environment quickly evolving, purchasing them presents different procurement challenges. The National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) recently released guidance on the...
4 Signs the RFP is Wired
Aug 1, 2017
Summer is the silly season in federal government contracting. When it comes to business development, many events that most of us go to are on temporary hiatus until September to allow for vacations that limit attendance, so what do we do? Well, there tends to be no shortage of bidding...
Navigating the UK IT and Digital Procurement Landscape – Guidance Now Available
Jul 18, 2017
We mentioned in our Newswire last week that the UK’s Local Government Association (LGA) – a membership of councils working to influence central government on issues that matter to local authorities – had released its National Technological and Digital Procurement Category Strategy guidance....
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