Guy Strafford at Proxima rightly bemoans the broad adverse perception of “procurement”. We are probably biased given our commitment to the subject matter, but it does seem that the word itself has become so loaded with negative connotations that it could fairly be described as a perjorative. This is especially so when it is teamed…
Centralising of procurement functions appears to be a bit of theme today. Our earlier post (http://tinyurl.com/qe8rbj7) looked at the issue from the macro perspective of the UK Government’s ongoing strategy to bring together the diverse strands of central government procurement into a more uniform, coherent and co-ordinated system. In the linked piece at Digital Energy…
Entertaining as ever, Douglas Carswell MP takes to the Telegraph blog to make his point about what he sees as muddled economic (and indeed procurement) thinking in the Government’s recent action to centralise its presently diverse procurement function. Carswell’s real arguments hide behind a lampooning of the civil service objection to his characterisation of the…
The Government Procurement Service has advertised a Prior Information Notice in the OJEU announcing its plans for a Framework Agreement to replace the 2010 BECTA agreement. Computing provides more details for anyone interested in participating. http://tinyurl.com/mqru7p7
The Blog has frequently expressed the view that eProcurement 2.0 has learned and evolved from the early forays into closed loop eprocurement systems and is poised to penetrate the procurement process market much more deeply. It is interesting to hear, therefore, about the joint report by BDO and Procserve which claims that up to 3%…
The Service’s procurement function has been bundled with other “back office” activities in a 5 year managed services outsourcing deal. Public Technology Net has more here: http://tinyurl.com/m35jp33
If there was a need to remind us that the the public sector is not expert in procurement, the FireControl project has been a shining example. The Public Accounts Committee has now waded into the action by means of a report which concludes that it has no confidence in local government to be able to…
If you are a voluntary, charitable, social enterprise or co-operative entity and you need to consider the options open to you for funding from Europe, then the European Funding Network website is a great place to start. http://tinyurl.com/jwjw6t7
The European Trade Union Confederation has signalled its support for the proposed reform of public procurement regulation which is currently navigating its way through the EP. http://tinyurl.com/mtetx4e
Local Partnerships, the Local Government Association and the British Property Federation have joined forces to produce a flowchart which has as its lofty goal to set out clearly and comprehensively the circumstances in which the Directives and Public Contract Regulations 2006 (as amended) as interpreted by caselaw both at ECJ and domestic level apply to…
