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Trade promotion, where a country promotes its companies and products to be bought by another, has a certain image. One imagines suave Alan Whicker clones sipping wine and doing deals at expensive hotels. That image is changing rapidly and not just because Covid-19 makes getting on planes remarkably difficult. Data is the new frontier of trade, and ...

Our clients expect us to answer tough questions. Questions like, "what's the total value of public contracting worldwide?" or, "who's the leading buyer of consulting services in Europe?" Being able to answer those questions requires a thorough understanding of public procurement, but also an understanding of what data is available and how to query it. Our work ...

The US Government's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has requested submissions on the "methods and leading practices" to assess whether agencies' policies and actions are meeting the needs of underserved communities and cites procurement as part of their work. Each agency will be required to lay out a plan for how they plan to overcome barriers ...

As experts in procurement and open data, we are pleased to see the recent announcement that global confectionery giant Mars is harnessing its procurement power to tackle climate change. Joining forces with Guidehouse, a sustainability consultancy, Mars has developed a coalition of suppliers to use the procurement process to drive change. The new coalition called the Supplier Leadership ...

We're always pleased to see governments reviewing their procurement processes with a view to greater transparency. The Western Australian Government has recently released a new framework, supporting their Procurement Act 2020, bringing together goods, services, and works procurement under one piece of legislation. The changes come from a recent review of the previous procurement framework, highlighting significant ...

....So says the Cabinet Office, with new measures released on World Environment Day that will require businesses to publish clear and credible carbon reduction plans before they can bid for major government contracts. The Government claims the new rules will support their build-back greener plans, with potential government suppliers required to publish plans to reduce carbon emissions ...

The New Zealand Government is taking steps to improve its procurement of national medicine supply through a review process. The Pharmaceutical Management Agency, better known as Pharmac, is a New Zealand Crown entity that decides which medicines and pharmaceutical products are subsidised for use in the community and public hospitals. Recent supply and quality issues have raised ...

This week sees Highland Council publish the main construction and refurbishment tenders for the Inverness Castle Transformation project, through Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). The tenders are part of the master plan for Inverness Castle to become a tourism gateway, as the centerpiece to the Highlands. The planned construction will include: - Opening the original front entrance to the ...

We might say marketing to the government is similar to marketing to any other target market, particularly another B2B target market. And broadly, the principles remain the same, but there are a few specific considerations when marketing to government. Define Your Objectives Using Data. Any marketing plan should start with defining your objectives, but they often ...

It's easy to say that you're a 'world leading' enterprise. It's much harder to back it up. But we genuinely believe that we're a world-leading enterprise when it comes to analysing the $13tn market for public procurement. The reason? Because we have world-beating data scientists and analysts. Each of them is a master of their craft. They care deeply about getting the ...

Clearly, the UK Government is a leader in the field of open data and transparency: it is this commitment to transparency as well as a commitment to addressing the issue of gender and work that has made this research possible. Whilst some of this report may make it difficult reading for some parts of the public ...

As part of our Procuring Inequality report, we've analysed whether winning government business equates to a gender pay disparity. By linking gender disparity data on who won contracts with the category and value of those contracts, we are able to show for the first time whether there is a positive or negative correlation between the value ...

As our analysis of the gender pay gap within strategic suppliers to government from our Procuring Inequality report, showed a broad overlap between the largest categories by contract value and the worst-performing categories by gender pay gap. In the top ten categories for gender pay disparity, six of the categories also feature in the top ten categories ...

Through the creation of our report Procuring Inequality, we have analysed the proportion of women in the top jobs among the highest value procurement categories. We did this by looking at the top quartile of employment, that is to say, the 25% highest paying jobs in organisations. Within this 25% of  ‘top jobs’ we look at the ...

As part of our exploration into the gender pay gap through our report, Procuring Inequality, we analysed the industry sectors and how their pay divide compared. Concerningly, £133bn in contracts went to sectors with a pay bias to men of over 22%. These sectors were almost evenly split at £67bn for Architectural and Engineering and £66bn for ...