New Government IT Procurement Opportunities For Smaller Businesses.
The autumn budget included an announcement that HM Revenue and Customs will receive approximately £750m over the next three years to upgrade its technology infrastructure.
These funds include £468m in system improvements to defend against cyberattacks and modernise the tax system. Interestingly, £277m has been allocated to transform the way IT systems are procured. The spending review ...
Greek Defence Spends Billions On Cyber, Navy and Aerospace.
In early September, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined major defence procurement plans as a way to overhaul its loss-making Greek defence industry and boost the country’s defence capabilities.
These procurement plans include a bid for new fighter aircraft, warships, and advanced weapons over the next 5 years. The French Government bid was successful in bidding for ...
Pressures Mounts On UK Procurement Processes
The UK Government has come under renewed pressure after being ordered to reveal the names of companies that were directly awarded significant contracts for the supply of PPE in a recent ruling from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The Good Law Project (GLP), was the first to reveal what they term 'VIP' access, and they are challenging the DHSC over contracts awarded ...
South Korea Targets SME Growth Through Health Procurement
When selling to governments, SME's often have challenges with matching the buying power and supply chain strength of larger organisations. For the South Korean Central Government, the pandemic has proved an opportunity to support small and medium-sized enterprises, by focusing on opportunities in the health sector through the provision of pandemic-related health supplies to international markets.
Face ...
List Of UK Tender Sources.
Our list of tender sources in the UK extends to over 180 individual publishers. If you use Spend Network you can access all of that data through one API call.
We maintain a comprehensive list of tender websites for public tenders so that we can gather all of the available documents as they are published. We're constantly ...
Canada Levels Up Procurement For Young Entrepreneurs.
Canadian not-for-profit organisation Futurpreneur, has partnered with the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC), on a project to diversify the Canadian Government supply chain. Futurpeneur is a not-for-profit organisation, providing financial and mentoring assistance to young entrepreneurs. CAMSC is a not-for-profit organisation that certifies and prepares Aboriginal and minority-owned businesses to commercially engage and respond ...
Do You Have Data Integrity?
Not all data is the same. It might have come from the same source, but how it gets treated is vital. If a data company doesn't have good data hygiene practices things can get messy very quickly, making it hard to understand the data or undermining your valuable analysis.
These are our rules for ensuring data integrity:
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Delivery Guaranteed.
Our customers are the special ones.
We make the bricks, they build the houses.
They're the ones that make it easy to win contracts.
They're the ones empowering SME businesses.
They're the ones fighting for international trade.
They're the ones creating new credit analysis from our data;
or finding an investment alpha amongst the morass of data.
What we do really well is ...
Contracting Emissions
We've launched a new analysis; the carbon emitted by the public sector's supply chain (scope three emissions).
We're calling it Contracting Emissions.
You can see our alpha dashboard here: https://spendnetwork.com/carbon/
The work still has a long way to go, but we're hoping that it can make an impact in public contracting. We'd welcome feedback and thoughts to ian@spendnetwork.com
The Services Sector Opens Up
The WTO have announced a new agreement on the regulation of the services sector in over sixty countries. The deal ensures more transparency on regulation and certification of services companies.
This creates a significant opportunity for international trade on services, particularly in the public sector, where there is a much greater emphasis on services over goods.
Financial services ...
Greece Spends €3 Billion in French Defence Deal.
A few weeks back, when the US, UK and Australian governments announced their surprise military pact, France wore the brunt of the new alliance, with the Australian Government subsequently scrapping its €50 billion nuclear submarine deal with them.
At the same time, the Greek Navy sought bids to upgrade their fleet. Through a tender process, they received ...
UK Government £650 Billion Pipeline.
The UK Government has released plans for the investment of £650 billion of public and private cash into infrastructure projects across the country over the next decade under its new National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline. The investment will support more than 400k jobs between 2021 and 2025, through more than 500 projects.
In 2022 alone, £31 billion ...
Contracting Emissions
We’ve built an analysis of carbon emissions by contract.
Our team has shown some real dedication to get this far with the work.
There’s still a long way to go.
We’ve got a first draft analysis and projections for carbon emissions based on the UK’s contract data.
We’re sharing an early dashboard to get feedback- you'll find it here www.spendnetwork.com/carbon
Get ...
You Don’t Care About Open Data.
We only charge for commercial use of our data. Non commercial users get it for free.
That means that our data is open.
If you're a business you probably don't care about the data being open.
But you should.
Here's why.
Every day people are gathering and analysing our data for their own research. That means it gets used a ...
Zombie Tenders On The Rise
Across Europe, the number of single bid tenders that only receive one bid continues to grow. Despite the pandemic, the number of contracts awarded after just one bid has been received is staying stubbornly high at 20%.
This means that one in five bids doesn't accrue enough interest to create any competition.
We call these zombie tenders and ...