UK
Out of the manifestos analysed, the Green Party one is by far the shortest. It is unsurprising then that there is not much to be found about procurement in it. The only proposal it contains is that they will campaign to bring the Prompt Payment Code into law and debar
sustainability
A couple of years ago I attended a sustainable public procurement conference and asked one of the speakers about the tradeoffs adding more sustainable objectives to procurement would entail. In short, there are no free lunches and as such - on aggregate and at scale - this is likely to
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1. Big tech's grip loosens on UK.gov IT spend. 2. World Bank puts out it "Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017" report. Albert has the lowdown of it. 3. The best way to build big is to start small. Agreed, way too many initiatives in public sector
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1. Public Procurement and Human Rights: A Survey of Twenty Jurisdictions. Report by the International Learning Lab. Last year I interviewed Claire Methven O'Brien about the topic for the Public Procurement Podcast. 2. A Case of Private Sector versus Public Body Going Head to Head for Community Adult
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1. Improving efficiency by building behavioural insights into an innovative NHS procurement portal (research project). Looks very interesting and I look forward to the findings. 2. Public procurement in Europe needs to enter the digital era. Good blogpost by Mara Mendes and Mihaly Fazekas on the need for better procurement