How Whitehall Works: What the government’s procurement reform means
The government has announced the development of a new National Procurement Policy Statement that will focus on ensuring that public procurement can support the government’s five national missions of boosting economic growth, building green energy, tackling crime, breaking down barriers to opportunity and build an NHS fit for the future.
This webinar focused on providing you with that you need to know about the new policy statement. The session set out what the new rules mean for what public authorities will want to buy, and how they will do it.
Join this session to discuss the key elements of the new procurement approach will mean across the public sector.
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Richard Anstis, Global Government Forum Associate Policy Trainer
Richard is a highly qualified procurement expert, acknowledged as an international authority on procurement, contracts, and contract management. After some years working in the retail sector, he held several senior procurement posts within the UK Government, before joining academia and spending ten years as Senior Lecturer in Procurement and Director of Procurement Programmes for the UK National School of Government.
Richard then started his own business as a procurement consultant and has undertaken training and development assignments for some of the world’s most successful companies, including British Airways, Ford, BMW, GKN, Clarcor, and JLR. He has also worked with UK and international government organisations, including the United Nations, the Panama Canal Company, the Cayman Islands Government, The States of Jersey, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Defence, Dŵr Cymru, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Council, Buckinghamshire County Council, Gloucestershire County Council, Network Rail, DVLA, and London South Bank University.
Richard holds a Master’s degree in procurement, and has qualifications in supply chain management, training practice, and coaching. He is a Fellow of both The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (FCIPS) and The Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors (FCIEA). He is also an Associate Member of The Royal Institution, and a Member of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and The Institute of Learning and Occupational Learning. As a keen CIPS volunteer, he has served on both CIPS Council and CIPS Global Congress, and still sits on the CIPS Branch Committee for Surrey and Sussex.
Seminars that Richard delivers for Global Government Forum include:
Richard Johnstone, Executive Editor, Global Government Forum
Richard Johnstone is the executive editor of Global Government Forum, where he helps to produce editorial analysis and insight for the title’s audience of public servants around the world. Before joining GGF, he spent nearly five years at UK-based title Civil Service World, latterly as acting editor, and has worked in public policy journalism throughout his career.
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Webinar chair: Siobhan Benita, Moderator, Global Government Forum
Siobhan was a senior civil servant in the UK with more than 15 years’ Whitehall experience. She worked in many of major delivery departments, including Transport, Environment, Health and Local Government. She also had senior roles at the heart of government in the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, including supporting the then Cabinet Secretary, Lord O’Donnell, to lead work on civil service reform and strategy. Siobhan left to run as an independent candidate in the Mayor of London election. She subsequently joined her alma mater, Warwick University, as Chief Strategy Officer of Warwick in London and Co-Director of the Warwick Policy Lab.
