Consultants Still Winning Huge Government Contracts.
Consultancies have won contracts worth more than £700m from UK government in Covid related contracts since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Concerningly, many of the contracts were awarded without competitive tender.
The Financial Times has previously reported on Whitehall departments facing criticism for a “worrying lack of transparency” over many of the deals, which include supporting ...
Two Solutions To A Hard Problem
In our last post, I suggested that public procurement has a big problem: an inability to account for, or record failure. Today I’m going to suggest a possible solution. One that would provide the sort of insight that we can use to understand contract failures in procurement.
We’re proposing two initiatives:
In addition to what we would consider ...
Public Procurement Has A Big Problem
The world has changed.
We live in a world where commerce, industry, and work are powered by data. Performance is measured and judgments on success and failure are often obvious to all.
This is not true of public procurement, which rarely measures or reports on performance.
In simple terms, Governments find it too hard to accurately report on the ...
Ukrainian Invasion & UK Procurement
Last week, the UK Government released a Procurement Policy Note (PPN) that sets out how contracting authorities can further cut ties with companies backed by the states of Russia and Belarus.
It applies to:
all central government departments
their executive agencies
non-departmental public bodies
Departments bodies and agencies that fall under the above are considered ‘In-Scope Organisations’ and ...
Aviation Procurement Inquiry
The Defence Committee, made up of a number of MP’s appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Ministry of Defence and its associated public bodies, has announced the first of two inquiries into aviation procurement
The first inquiry will consider “strategic context, existing contracts and capabilities, and the impact ...
Solving Search
Search is difficult.
By that we mean building a service that delivers the right information to people who are searching for it.
In our world of searching for business opportunities, there’s a range of tools and techniques that can be used to make search more rewarding for users.
Let’s first understand the problems. It is common for users to ...
EU Medical Procurement Recommendations
The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) has released a paper that examines procurement practices across the EU in their delivery of high-quality medicines for patients.
The EFPIS represents the biopharmaceutical industry operating in Europe. Through its membership of 36 national associations, 39 leading pharmaceutical companies, and a growing number of small and medium-sized enterprises, EFPIA’s ...
You Can Shove Our Data……
Right into the heart of your business.
That’s right, we want you to put our data in your own database.
We don’t put our data behind a web page or try to limit who can view it.
We don’t try and tell you what you can do with the data, or whether you can link it to other data.
We ...
Aus. Audit Office Taking Submissions
A few months ago we wrote about the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) investigation into the procurement practices of government-funded infrastructure.
The ANAO has now launched a new inquiry into the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) and their procurement of ICT-related services. The DTA came under fire back in 2020 by the ANAO for the way it established ...
The Key To A $13trn Market Is Just A Login Away
Developers are a precious resource. You want them deployed on the most critical projects and for their time to be best used.
But what if you had the data on a server ready to go? If your only barrier to millions of tenders, contracts and spend records is a login and password ? What if this data ...
Bad Data Is A Choice
You can’t run a good service on bad data.
It doesn’t matter if you’re in government, a hedge fund or running a small charity. Today the information you need to run a service relies on data.
That means running a database. Not just having a database, but maintaining it and managing it so that your organisation can make ...
Sole Beneficiary Of £250 Million contract
Crown Hosting Data Centres (CHDC) is likely to ‘win’ the government hosting framework contract worth up to £250 million.
The UK Government's Cabinet Office will negotiate a new agreement for hosting services for the public sector but will almost certainly award the CHDC, which it partly owns with Ark Data Centres under a public-private joint venture, set ...
We Go The Extra Mile
With national, federal, and regional tender portals, it is easy to get an idea of the public procurement marketplace. But in truth, these are only scratching the surface of a $13 trillion dollar marketplace. There are almost 100k public entities in the US alone. Even a smaller country like the United Kingdom has thousands of entities, ...
When Language Fails You-Translating Global Data.
Our users enjoy access to all the key, live tender opportunities from around the world.
We have hundreds of thousands of global, live contracts and tenders across over 100 languages at any one time.
It comes as little surprise then, that a common discussion we have with our users centres around language and translation.
This conversation typically begins with ...
Create A Bespoke Spend Category In Days.
When opening up most banking apps, it’s amazing how vague the transactional information is.
How can you identify key savings in the broad-reaching ‘entertainment’ or ‘leisure’ bucket? How can you build a green profile of yourself when ‘travel’ is clumped together?
This is a wider problem in business. Have you ever looked at financial reports and wondered, ‘What’s ...