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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a lot of procurement data out there, but it doesn’t always have reliable or consistent features. Data that's raw, unreliable, inconsistent, and scattered across different systems is hard to work with and makes it difficult to create a robust business pipeline. Most procurement teams conduct some level of pipeline analysis in order to plan activity ...

A recent report by the global business strategists Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum has found global government procurement is responsible for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Their study reported that governments spend $11trillion(USD) annually-or 15% of global GDP, on procurement every year. Our own prior study, tracked the value of global procurement at ...

One of the first things President Biden did when he came into office was launch an executive order on green procurement. That is, he put requirements in place for all US government procurement around sustainability and the reduction of C02 emissions. Specifically, agencies are directed to seek carbon-free electricity by 2030, zero-emission vehicle emissions by 2035, net-zero-emission from ...

In November 2021, the Australian state Government of Victoria launched a digital strategy, which identified the frailties of the existing process for ICT procurement and offered strategies to simplify the process with the objective of encouraging a broader range of companies to do business with the government. A key part of the strategy is the creation of ...

In December 2020, the UK Government Cabinet Office set out proposals for shaping the future of public procurement legislation with the publication of a Green Paper, Transforming Public Procurement.Preview (opens in a new tab) The overarching goals of these proposals were to speed up and simplify the Government procurement processes, in their words, ‘placing value for money ...

-By Alex Yeung As a side hobby, I regularly cook. Apparently, it’s quite popular. It’s certainly lighter, less salty, less sugary, and saves a small fortune in eating out. "You should sell this," regularly pops up in conversation. This led me to think, "let's see if I can scale up." So, I set up a house party. Shopped around ...

Earlier this year we shared the New Zealand Government's decision to improve its health procurement through a review process of Pharmac, the Crown entity that chooses medicines and pharmaceutical products for community and public hospitals. A Review Committee was asked to consider how well Pharmac performed against its objectives and whether its performance could be improved. It ...

Machine learning is seeping into our everyday lives, it powers our social feeds, our song recommendations, and our internet searches. It’s coming for your chatbots and the car you drive. Its potential to pervade business is obvious. We wrote about our classification algorithm here, a tool that is forty-four thousand times faster than a human. Using machine ...