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  The government has recently introduced a ‘Cloud First Policy’, making it compulsory for central departments to give priority to online-only IT services. Smaller firms who offer cloud-based products or services will now have priority over their larger counterparts when the...

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  In recent months there have been complaints in Scotland about the criteria used to ‘score’ bids submitted for the Scottish Government’s new Marketing Services Framework. The framework outlines the various marketing, PR and advertising companies that are eligible to...

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  Recently it has come to light that our government has appointed no less than six leaders from the private sector in order to help it get better ‘value’ from its contracts through the procurement and tendering process. These six new members of the Crown Representative Network...

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  Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) has an annual budget £15 billion. It is the Ministry of Defence body responsible for procuring everything from boots through to jet fighters, and supplying them to the military, and it is poised to be partly privatised. Despite the concerns...

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  Last week, an MP made claims at the Global Manufacturing Festival that the government should be taking a more “holistic” approach to procurement, and should take into account ‘strategic economic benefits’ to the UK. These benefits include the creation of jobs, tax...

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    According to news sources, the grip that Ernst & Young has on Lloyd’s of London, the oldest insurance market in the world, has loosened following the works being put to the competitive market as a tender. Lloyd’s, the contracting authority for this tender exercise, ...

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  Momentum is quickly building, both inside the NHS and out, for the overturn of Section 75 of the NHS Competition Regulations, which would potentially force all NHS services to be put out to tender. Labour’s Health Spokesman and Deputy Leader, Philip Hunt of Kings Health  has...

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  A waste contract is set to be released over the next couple of weeks which is said to be the largest public sector jointly commissioned contract in the East Yorkshire region. This contract will decide where the rubbish from households in East Yorkshire will be disposed of over the next...

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  It has recently come to light that further institutes and organisations are once again calling for the simplification of the PQQ process, in order to promote and facilitate SME access to contract opportunities in the public sector. Last week, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors...

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  Under plans recently published by the Government, companies who submit bids and tenders for public sector work, and the bodies putting those opportunities out to tender, will have to change their approach to the tender writing process, possibly as early as April 1st this year. Proposed...

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  Are the police likely to be more SME friendly in the bid writing process? Following a recent committee meeting, it may be a lengthy period of time before you see a tender to write for the Police which is SME centric. The London Assembly’s Budget and Performance Committee met last...

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  When it comes to the radical overhaul of the UK’s procurement and tendering practices, which has been called for on numerous occasions, we are apparently making progress, even if problems are still apparent. The National Audit Office (NAO)has delivered a message declaring the...

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There is potentially good and bad news for bid writers bidding into universities and colleges, as reports have been recently published which suggest that the higher education establishments are not yet free from potential cuts in the future. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)...

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  During the summer months of last year, Turning Point, a national provider of Health and Social Care, challenged Norfolk County Council following its failure to secure the contract for services that the council had put out to tender. Turning Point was unsuccessful in their challenge,...

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  The organisers of the 2014 Ryder Cup have started the tender process for delivery of goods and services to next year’s event. Taking place in September 2014 at Gleneagles in Perthshire, the event requires bidders for a range of services, including transport, catering, security,...

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  The UK government has recently created a “new place to find government services and information”, and within the Gov.UK website they have released a step-by-step guide to tendering for public sector contracts. Part 1 This provides an overview of what is included in the...

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  It was announced earlier this week that Suffolk County Council has made the decision not to continue to pursue in reaching an agreement with their preferred bidder Balfour Beatty Living Places for their £200 million highways improvement and maintenance deal. The council had previously...

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Four new supplier categories has been added to the third framework for G-cloud services along with an increase to the procurement limits, all inside a year after the pan-government public service went live. The G-Cloud is an initiative established by the government in order to facilitate and...

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  Executive Compass® is very proud to announce that our chosen charity for 2013 is Sense for deafblind people. Sense is a national charity that raises money for children and adults with dual-sensory impairments. The charity helps by providing affected persons with specialist services...

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  Ten of the largest contracting companies in the UK have been invited to tender for one of the five available places in a framework agreement for the delivery of construction projects across the UK Defence Estate. The framework is to be titled ‘The National Capital Works Framework’...

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