All posts tagged "procurement"

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  Cabinet Office leads a review into UK’s resilience

  A review of national resilience — designed to help the UK government learn lessons from its preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic — is underway, the chief operating officer of the

  • Posted May 19, 2021
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  The top five threats to government procurement integrity

  Government procurement teams are responsible for managing billions of pounds of public expenditure, and taxpayers want more transparency on how their money is being spent. However, experts estimate that procurement errors,

  • Posted May 7, 2021
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  Time traveller: Israeli IT chief Shahar Bracha on digital’s leap into the future

  The pandemic has supercharged progress on Israel’s digital services, says the head of its Government ICT Authority – and cleared the path ahead for radical reforms to create corporate IDs

  • Posted April 12, 2021
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  US president Joe Biden names pick to lead General Services Administration

  US president Joe Biden has chosen digital government veteran Robin Carnahan as his pick to lead the federal government’s procurement agency. In a statement posted on the White House website

  • Posted April 7, 2021
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  How to embed the agility and pace seen during the pandemic response in governments

  At a recent webinar, senior civil servants from the UK, Canada and Finland discussed where operational cultures could change after the pandemic, and where there could be a reversion to

  • Posted March 3, 2021
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  Opinion: Ministerial errors have undermined the UK’s pandemic response

  The latest Whitehall Monitor report reveals just how badly ministers have handled the COVID-19 crisis, failing in key areas such as procurement and working with local authorities, argues Richard Vize

  • Posted January 29, 2021
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  UK audit office report finds multiple failings in PPE procurement

  The UK government set up a “high priority lane” favouring companies referred by senior officials, ministers, parliamentarians and public servants in its PPE procurements, according to a new report from

  • Posted November 19, 2020
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  UK public standards watchdog sounds alarm over politicians’ behaviour

  A “perception is taking root” that public leaders are “choosing to disregard the norms of ethics and propriety” that should define their behaviour, the head of the UK’s public standards

  • Posted November 17, 2020
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  UK to score ‘social value’ in awarding contracts

  The UK government has announced new measures to deliver social value through public procurement. The model, announced by the Cabinet Office last month, will require government departments to assess and

  • Posted October 9, 2020
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  UK government open banking tender puts focus on payments

  The UK’s journey towards implementing open banking to deliver citizen services has taken a significant step forward with the opening of what is believed to be the country’s first government

  • Posted September 3, 2020
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