All posts tagged "procurement"

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  Spend it wisely, part 1: streamlining the tender process

  With so much public money now spent with private sector suppliers, interest is growing in ways to reform and improve public procurement. In the first of two linked articles on

  • Posted May 7, 2018
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  Global Government Summit 2018; part 2

  Over the years Andrew Kibblewhite, who leads New Zealand’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, has seen big changes in the direction of public sector reforms. At the 2018

  • Posted May 1, 2018
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  Beyond the contract: getting value from incumbent suppliers, part 2

  In the second part of our feature on ‘add-on’ sales, poacher-turned-gatekeeper James Johns explores how public sector commercial teams can outmanoeuvre supplier teams and introduce competitive pressures when purchasing from

  • Posted April 30, 2018
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  US agencies’ ‘save to spend’ IT freedoms hit budget deadlock

  The US White House has released guidance for agencies on how they can raise funds under the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, though parts of the timeline are uncertain due

  • Posted March 12, 2018
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  Nigerian president orders procurement officials to favour domestic firms

  Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has signed an Executive Order requiring public bodies to give preference to Nigerian companies when awarding procurement contracts. Executive Order 5, issued earlier this month with

  • Posted February 19, 2018
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  US agencies exhibit poor IT oversight, auditors find

  Twenty-one of 22 US federal agencies studied breached official guidance by failing to identify $4.5bn (€3.6bn) worth of information technology contracts – almost a quarter of their total IT obligations

  • Posted February 5, 2018
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  Officials ready to rejig poor contracts, says UK government chief executive

  UK civil service chief executive John Manzoni hinted last week that the government might wish to revisit some poorly-functioning private sector delivery contracts, in the wake of the high-profile collapse

  • Posted February 4, 2018
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  White House federal IT plan details revamp of ‘outdated’ system

  A report ordered by President Donald Trump has set out recommendations for an overhaul of the “unwieldy and out-of-date” US federal IT system, in part to address today’s heightened cybersecurity

  • Posted September 6, 2017
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  Mathew Duncan, Finance Director of Crossrail 1, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Working on the vast project to build a fast new railway line 100km across London, Mathew Duncan’s team of finance professionals are proving that the public sector can bring in

  • Posted August 28, 2017
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  Australia seeks to break stranglehold of big government IT suppliers

  The Australian government has unveiled radical reforms designed to force federal agencies to end their dependence on big IT suppliers, whilst opening up major new markets to smaller technology firms.

  • Posted August 25, 2017
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