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 […]
While it was good to see Civil Service World picking up on the story about government’s declining spend with smaller suppliers (see our original story […]
We are pleased to publish this post from Alan Day, founder and chairman, State of Flux (global procurement consultancy and SRM software provider), looking at what's behind the government's […]
We have read the NAO report “Government’s spending with small and medium-sized enterprises” more thoroughly now. (See our initial comments here). We would have been […]
Jason Busch is Spend Matters' co-founder and original contributor, based in Chicago. He is visiting Peter and myself this week in the UK and took time […]
A new study has been undertaken to measure the carbon impact of the UK Government supply chain - it's the first of its kind and uses […]
We’re pleased to feature a guest post from Ian Makgill, Managing Director of Spend Network which analyses government spend data, producing real evidence-based work. Spend Network and the Institute for Government recently published a joint report into the largest suppliers in Government. The data was collated from over 6,711 of the publicly available monthly spend statements from central and local government before being linked to Companies House and other records. The analysis features some familiar names, but also has some notable exceptions, G4S for example. We link to the full report and Spend Network gives a few findings that we believe will be of real interest to our readers.
We haven't reported on our readers' comments for a while -- there have been so many interesting procurement news items, CEO/CPO announcements, mergers, opinions, research […]
We are delighted to feature a post by Ian Makgill of Spend Network on Government spending with Capita. Following Peter’s recent posts on Capita, Ian thought […]
