UK Leading Procurement Transparency Alongside Columbia and Ukraine.
By Fiona Hunt.
The recent report on global government spending by Open Contracting Partnership and Spend Network, brought to light for the first time, the extraordinary size of the global procurement market and, alarmingly, the lack of open contracting.
Of the $13 trillion spent per annum by governments globally, only $362billion (2.8%), is published openly. Imagine the increased ...
What Needs To Happen to Open Public Procurement- Skills
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network.
Our last post on what needs to happen to open procurement covers the skills you need to maintain a procurement publication service. Governments often focus too much on the technology needed to publish procurement data, ignoring the need to maintain and run the service in the long term.
Once set up, you will ...
What Needs To Happen To Open Public Procurement – Technology
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
Another key element to open public procurement is technology. Getting data into the public sphere can often be over complicated, but it needn't be. If you already have a system for collecting data on tenders and contracts, you'll need to talk to your provider about making that data available openly. The main ...
What Needs To Happen to Open Public Procurement- Policy
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
There are three basic requirements for implementing a contracting transparency initiative, the first is policy.
Creating new policies is easy, as long as you never have to implement them. Creating a policy that is designed to be implemented is much harder. Fortunately, the Open Contracting Partnership have, yet again, done all the heavy ...
Quantifying Global Public Procurement: Our Methodology
The Open Contracting Report 'Global Procurement Spend', is to our knowledge, the most comprehensive study of global public procurement yet. We are proud to be the data partner for the project, analysing more than 7 million documents to quantify the $12.9trn size of public procurement, globally.
So, you’re probably wondering how we put a number on it?
Our ...
Understanding Global Procurement
Why are we looking at procurement globally, when collaboration between countries is so difficult?
Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
Analysing public procurement on a global scale is, in one sense, hiding to nothing. After all, how useful is it to directly compare contracting in Bejing with contracts let in Bourdeaux? The nature of public administration in both ...
$13 Trillion – The Global Value Of Public Procurement
Ian Makgill, Alex Yeung, Lindsey Marchessault
We often hear about the scale of public procurement. With vast sums of money at stake, it is important that the public procurement market is fair, efficient, and effective.
However, it has been many years since anyone has actually quantified its annual global value. Thus far, there has been no attempt to ...
Which Country’s Purchasing Changed During The Covid-19 Crisis?
Looking at the data on tenders over the past twelve months gives some insight into the ways that different governments are operating during the crisis. Looking at the twelve largest economies in Europe, we've been able to see how buyers have changed their buying practices since the start of the year.
From the chart above it is ...
What Is The Right Price For PPE?
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
What's the right price for PPE gowns and masks? With every Government in the world yanking hard on the same supply chains, prices have increased significantly. The UK Government has made it clear that they're willing to do what they can to get the equipment they need to protect NHS staff.
We've written ...
Which Country’s Purchasing Changed the Most During the Covid-19 Crisis?
Looking at the data on tenders over the past twelve months gives some insight into the ways that different governments are operating during the crisis. Looking at the twelve largest economies in Europe, we've been able to see how buyers have changed their buying practices since the start of the year.
From the chart above it is ...
Implementing procurement analytics? Start with service design.
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
If you're unsure what service design is, a good place to start is here . It's a fascinating area of business that is concerned with making sure that services meet the needs of users. A good example of service design at work is Amazon. Amazon has a website, but this is only ...
5 Steps To Tackle Public Procurement Corruption.
Governments have rightly relaxed procurement rules in order to act quickly on Covid-19, but stories already abound on alleged corruption and financial mismanagement.
For instance, there are the tests that don't work , the ventilators that never materialised, the PPE that failed to arrive, and the Health Minister who was sacked. What's telling, is that these were ...
Your supplier is on mute.
Does video conferencing make it easier to evaluate suppliers?
We're just finishing up a bid. Our heads are full of equality policies, pricing and schedules. It's a strong bid, a great team and we've got all the necessary experience. It feels good.
We've written a lot, it has taken a long time, but could it be different?
It used ...
Do Governments Want to Trade with Small Business?
Why Covid-19 should change Government's view of contracting with SMEs.
-By Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network.
In April the Government awarded a £108m contract to Crisp Websites Limited, trading as Pestfix (https://www.pestfix.co.uk) a small, family-owned firm in Littlehampton, West Sussex for the supply of PPE. At the time of the award, Pestfix had little or no trading history ...
The Case For Using Data In Public Procurement
Our current model of procurement uses data for limited purposes. The primary analysis conducted by procurement teams is spend analysis, where buyers seek to identify opportunities for aggregating demand. Aggregation is where a buyer purchases more goods or services from a single supplier in order to achieve price reductions. In the public sector, spend analysis typically ...