Speaking of onboarding providers and reducing opportunity and transaction costs

Warren Smith, Global Digital Marketplace Programme Director replied to my tweet this morning about the Commission’s Single Market Scorecard:

Analysis of the @gov_procurement Digital Outcomes and Specialists (#DOS) framework @GOVUKdigimkt usage up to yesterday, regarding points [1] and [8] only pic.twitter.com/U4c7TVv8CdJuly 5, 2019

For the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework the Government Digital Service is getting 98% of the tenders with more than one bidder. I’m not a fan of frameworks but this shows how they can be used to increase competition.

The secret? Well, continuous improvement of course. Talking with suppliers, and reducing opportunity and transaction costs associated with procurement. That includes working on what happens before the procedure is launched, the procedure itself and, surprise, surprise, the contracts too.