The state of UK public procurement 2014

This paper celebrates the application of good procurement practice in user engagement throughout the procurement cycle, adoption of a category management approach, inclusion of social benefit clauses, use of eAuctions, collaborative purchasing beyond supplies, and environmental purchasing. However, by implication, the paper also suggests there is also significant room for improvement through the wider application of user engagement throughout the procurement cycle, adoption of a category management approach, inclusion of social benefit clauses, use of eAuctions, collaborative purchasing beyond supplies, and environmental purchasing. These improvements would deliver cost reductions and improved public services, objectives of the public sector throughout the world. The challenge is now to understand what contributed to the exemplars being able to bring about the change and accelerating the transference of that good practice throughout the public sector.

This is an extract from my paper published in Public Money and Management which can be accessed here (free of charge for first 50 downloads).