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. It […]
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. It […]
Let’s get a bit personal today. This is me and my mother in law Lucy – who has her own Twitter following as a vegetable […]
Over the years we have covered a whole range of major local authority (council) outsourcing deals to a range of suppliers – Capita, Serco, BT, […]
We’ve featured Allan Watton many times over the years. He and his firm, Best Practice Group, are genuinely deep experts in major outsource service contracts, […]
The UK National Audit Office released a report recently on the NHS England (NHSE) contract with Capita for primary care services, which joins the long […]
The session on redefining procurement models at ProcureCon Indirect, with Anton Shibanov of MTS and Alpar Kamber of WNS-Denali, looked at the reasons for outsourcing […]
There is an increasing and worrying trend in the NHS for hospital trusts to set up subsidiary companies and move groups of staff into those […]
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 […]
I’ve sent off my submission to the Parliamentary Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs committee, which is running an inquiry into “Sourcing public services: lessons learned […]
There is only one town in the UK that hosts a top-flight (four highest divisions) football team, a Premiership rugby outfit and a top-level county […]
Back in 2011, I wrote about "Procurement myths: economies of scale and 'bigger is better':" in two parts. Let's take a look at what I […]
