Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public procurement. GovShop is its free-to-use government […]
Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public procurement. GovShop is its free-to-use government […]
We discovered a new (ish) procurement platform recently that we thought you would be interested to hear about. From what we could see when we […]
Ed Bradley, Co-Founder at Virtualstock discusses the importance of supply chain data management to performance. The experiences of consumer technology such as Uber and Amazon and […]
That sounds like an advert, which it is partly, but only because we think it’s a pretty neat piece of procurement software, linking buyers and […]
Last quarter (just) we introduced you to Koble - the “Smarter Business Through Networking” platform. Essentially, it is a social network for businesses that helps enterprise users […]
SpendLead is the online business communication and matchmaking service for companies to “find and be found”. As founder Fabrice Saporito says, it “facilitates social engagement […]
We are looking forward to seeing some of our friends and readers tomorrow evening for the SpendLead launch event at the Waterloo Bar and Kitchen […]
We are pleased to bring you this post from Richard Skelton, Procurement Service Manager (acting), ESPO. ESPO is a customer-focused, not-for-profit, public sector buying organisation owned by […]
NQC is the developer of SID4GOV, now enhanced further as the platform to enable all public sector buyers to access supplier information through a single online system. It gathers information directly from suppliers and provides a single view of critical supplier data, offering increased scope, enhanced functionality and accurate, up-to-date data. NQC was founded in 2003 by a partnership of individual public procurement experts. It has worked closely with the Cabinet Office and the Home Office on sustainability and information security reporting respectively. This year it became involved with the development of the public procurement standard initiative when DEFRA engaged it to implement the balanced scorecard within SID4GOV and roll out the system. We talked to Adrian Segens, Head of Sales, NQC.
We are pleased to bring you this guest post from Stephen Ashcroft, procurement risk coach at Brian Farrington. Stephen shares his company’s learnings from dealing […]
We’re delighted to present a post from Stephen Ashcroft, Procurement Risk Consultant, Brian Farrington Ltd, following the theme of commercial negotiation skills. "Negotiating major deals and dispute scenarios needs addressing in many organisations. There is the assumption that everyone is a natural negotiator and deeply educated in the available tools and techniques – that’s not what I have seen. There are some who should never be allowed near a negotiation room." Stephen provides some pragmatic and useful (refresher) points for “the Buyer” and the reader of Spend Matters.
