Government publishes plans to overhaul public procurement
Today Government published its long-awaited green paper Transforming Public Procurement, which contains its proposals on shaping the future of public procurement in the UK for many years to come. The Government’s key objectives are to speed up and simplify its procurement processes; to ensure value for the taxpayer; and to encourage innovation and competition by making it easier for SMEs to win Government contracts.
Specific changes to the rules proposed include:
- Removing over 300 complex regulations, to create a single uniform rulebook.
- Overhauling inflexible and complex procedures, replacing them with three simple modern procedures. This will allow more freedom for suppliers and the public sector to work together and innovate.
- Allowing buyers to include wider social benefits of the supplier, such as economic, social and environmental factors, when assessing who to award a contract to, while also still considering value for money.
- Giving buyers the power to properly take account of a bidder’s past performance, allowing them to exclude suppliers who have failed to deliver in the past.
- A new unit to oversee public procurement with powers to improve commercial skills of public sector contractors.
- A single digital platform for registering contracts, improving transparency and making life significantly simpler for business.
The Consultation on the proposals laid out in the green paper opens today and will close on 10 March 2021.
techUK will be convening a series of Roundtable discussions with members in the new year to gather input for our consultation response. So, please do keep an eye out for these sessions here on the website, and in your inbox.
In the meantime, if you’d like to get involved in techUK’s work on procurement reform please email [email protected]
You can find out more about the proposals to transform procurement here, and the full list of green paper Consultation Questions here.
Jill Broom
Jill Broom
Jill leads the techUK Cyber Security programme, having originally joined techUK in October 2020 as a Programme Manager for the Cyber and Central Government programmes. She is responsible for managing techUK's work across the cyber security ecosystem, bringing industry together with key stakeholders across the public and private sectors. Jill also provides the industry secretariat for the Cyber Growth Partnership, the industry and government conduit for supporting the growth of the sector. A key focus of her work is to strengthen the public–private partnership across cyber to support further development of UK cyber security and resilience policy.
Before joining techUK, Jill worked as a Senior Caseworker for an MP, advocating for local communities, businesses and individuals, so she is particularly committed to techUK’s vision of harnessing the power of technology to improve people’s lives. Jill is also an experienced editorial professional and has delivered copyediting and writing services for public-body and SME clients as well as publishers.
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Ellie joined techUK in March 2018 as a Programme Assistant to the Public Sector team and now works as a Programme Manager for the Central Government Programme.
The programme represents the supplier community of technology products and services in Central Government – in summary working to make Government a more informed buyer, increasing supplier visibility in order to improve their chances of supplying to Government Departments, and fostering better engagement between the public sector and industry. To find out more about what we do, how we do this and how you can get involved – make sure to get in touch!
Prior to joining techUK, Ellie completed Sixth Form in June 2015 and went on to work in Waitrose, moved on swiftly to walking dogs and finally, got an office job working for a small local business in North London, where she lives with her family and their two Bengal cats Kai and Nova.
When she isn’t working Ellie likes to spend time with her family and friends, her cats, and enjoys volunteering for diabetes charities. She has a keen interest in writing, escaping with a good book and expanding her knowledge watching far too many quiz shows!
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