We welcome this advisory post from Eleanor Matthews, Co-Founder at WorkFutures. The rise of the procurement team’s profile in industry has been well documented, with teams […]
Four Quick Ways For Small Businesses To Power Up Their Procurement
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Government Spend with Smaller Suppliers is Going Down Again – But Does Anyone Care?
Let's talk about UK government spend with small suppliers – although in all honesty it is tempting to just republish the article we wrote back […]
Minister Announces New Measures for Government Procurement
An article in the Times last week from Oliver Dowden, who is the Minister for Implementation at the Cabinet Office, was the first we’ve heard […]
More from PACAC – We Want More Foreign Suppliers, Says Minister
We reported here on the recent Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee which looked at sourcing public services post-Carillion and outsourcing. That raised some issues […]
Public Spend Forum – Public Procurement Highlights from this Week
Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public procurement and the public sector market. […]
Basware Report on Prompt Payments – Still An Issue for UK SMEs
Last week Payments and eProcurement firm Basware published the results of a UK survey around small business and prompt payment. The survey of over 2,000 […]
CCS Consulting Framework – What Lies Behind The Procurement Strategy?
We highlighted the publication of the Crown Commercial Services Management Consultancy tender (“MCF2”) recently here. CCS is setting up four “lots” to cover a range […]
Advice from Ferrero on Brexit Planning and Supply Chain Risk – SME Preparedness Is Critical!
You may have read our post on Edbury Daley’s workshop at eWorld in March ‘Brexit Contingency Planning at eWorld – Or Lack of It.’ Andrew Daley […]
Where Next For Crown Commercial Service? Tough Decisions Required
We wrote here about Malcolm Harrison’s departure from the UK government’s central buying organisation, Crown Commercial Service, and with Peter Lawson, one of Harrison’s key […]
Public Spend Forum Europe – Public Procurement Highlights from this Week
Public Spend Forum is dedicated to public sector procurement and aims to be a global community and knowledge network for improving public procurement and the public sector […]
The Two Butchers – A Parable About Protectionism, SMEs and Public Procurement
Continuing our best of 2017 round-up; this was originally published in three installments back in May. Reading this again, it might actually be the best […]
Public Spend Forum Europe – Public Procurement Highlights from This Week
Public Spend Forum is dedicated to public sector procurement and aims to be a global community and knowledge network for improving public procurement and the public sector […]