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Implementing Effective ICT: Squaring the circle of Agile procurement
A presentation on Agile procurement given at the Implementing Effective ICT summit in December 2011. This major Summit event brought together government departments, executive agenc...
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Presentations and Videos from Civil Service Live 2011
...Presentation 1 Tue 11:10 SME procurement in information technology...6:00 The perils and pitfalls of public procurement; an SME view Wed 16:...te sector managed services to public sector procurement Thu 12:50 The c...
Partners and Exhibitors - Danwood
...nt solution to a whole host of central government departments to help them achieve savings by finding efficiencies and reducing costs in IT and procurement.Visit stand 48, to learn more...
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Policy Focus: infrastructure and project management
...hn Hicks, head of government and public at infrastructure experts Davis Langdon shares his thoughts on the importance of transparency and clear procurement pipelines in supporting econo...
Sponsored feature: building the future
...ificance of good infrastructure to the health of our nation.” Procurement prioritiesIf transparency is...r needs as much information as possible about the government’s procurement priorities, and the procureme...
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SMEs' potential contribution to Civil Service learning and development
...f the talk being of current restrictions on procurement and the forthcoming Spending...where departments are combining in central procurement exercises, they must not rest...en circumstances change. Most importantly, procurement of learning and development i...
...isks. First, taking this much money out of the economy, this quickly, risks pushing us straight back into recession as public jobs and procurement nose-dive. When deficit hawks...
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Infrastructure boss calls for learning culture
...ants must get better at learning from their procurement mistakes, a senior Treasury o...had civil servants been better at reviewing procurement decisions, and improving futu...has actually happened [during and after the procurement process] and what we can chan...
Cross-departmental working vital to Big Society agenda, say MPs
...ť.Asked about PASC’s priorities for 2012, Jenkin said: “It’s all about the capabilities of Whitehall, strategic thinking, implementation, procurement, delivery.” He also said th...
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Editorial: If it’s not working, do something else
...column argued that “taking this much money out of the economy, this quickly, risks pushing us straight back into recession as public jobs and procurement nose-dive… If this shock th...
...half of the projects he had reviewed as part of the MPRG could demonstrate they had achieved this. Half, he said, have “inadequate commercial procurement resource, and don’t know wh...
Interviews
...e projects and programmes; poor procurement processes in the public secto...develop a model competition and procurement process (in partnership with...cture, where it’s very direct procurement.” This shift, combined with...the past in all areas of public procurement: “What we’re good at doin...
...e.” Meanwhile, changes to structures and processes are under way and “will show results in the years to come”, he adds, citing reforms to procurement and property management.Such...
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A plan of action for plans of action
...ing. Take just one example: the procurement of the RAF’s Eurofighter je...ent Information System; and the procurement of the Eurofighter – we’v...ence” of dealing with similar procurements, or commercial expertise tha...ecessary. The ugly: Eurofighter procurementAs procurement projects go, th...
...t just in the tax and benefit system. Other departments have to wake up to the fact that they have also been defrauded.”The NFA believes that procurement fraud, for example, costs the...
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...we’re in the civil service, so we end up paying an awful lot more [to contractors or consultants].”Lay noted that slow decision-making and procurement creates another challenge. â€...
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
...ted Richard Fawssett, associate director of procurement at Ofgem. “You can’t expe...irement in its new contracts.The Government Procurement Service, which is overseeing...senior level backing greater risk-taking in procurement could lead to the development...
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Special report: How efficient is your department?
...s; their spending on government procurement cards; and the second of thei...nce-related pay and spending on procurement cards have attracted great in...g a battle but losing a war.” ProcurementTo contrast the efficiency of...using an unusual definition of procurement cost, and says a breakdown of...
...rtfolio of suppliers rather than a field of procurement, such as laptops or estate ma...continue to achieve savings and streamline procurement. However, their mandate is a...rn to profile linksVincent GodfreyMain job: procurement director, Ministry of Justice...
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...te processes across government departments, between tiers of government and across borders. Our systems support HR management, government procurement, public sector accounting and...
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Lean Sourcing Process (was Licence to Source Network)
This is where procurement practitioners can access the lean sourcing standard solution sets includ...packs, KPI pack, outline solution template, standard template library & procurement route decision tree. The cur...
Westminster Explained/UKTI Contract Management Training
...port. Within this group you will find useful links to those government departments who play a role in Government procurement, OGC guidance documents on contract management and procurement, useful blogs and further rea...
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Who will lead the drive to get better services for less money? Suzannah Brecknell learns at CSW’s sixth annual conference on public services that civil servants must do their bit – but ministers must also play a key role. At the recent Top 200 event – which brings together leaders from acr...
Tags: public administration, civil service reform, procurement, skills and competences
Use procurement to drive innovation, say Lords
Government is taking the “tried and tested” route to procurement, rather than stimulating innovation, according to chairman of the science and technology committee Lord Krebs. Speaking in a House of Lords debate addressing his committee's recent report on this subject, Lord Krebs cal...
Tags: procurement, lord krebs
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