Five Brilliant Ideas for Traffic Generation on your website.

The life of online marketing business depends on traffic. No traffic, no site exist.Here are the 5 ways to drive visitors to your ...

Please could you help us prioritise content for the webinar "Experts Forum: Best Practice Procurement"?

I would be very interested to hear opinions on which areas of procurement improvement to concentrate on during this webinar - it is a ...

Millstream wins £5 million contract to provide national procurement website for Norway

Millstream, the company behind the Tenders Direct service, has secured a £4.8million deal to run Norway’s national procurement database, ...

Inviting incumbent suppliers to bid...................

I'd appreciate your thoughts on the following scenario:-

An organisation has current contract with a supplier for services and have ...

The Local Government Procurement Network - coming soon

The Local Government Procurement Network (LGPN) is a UK-wide network aimed at informing, empowering and connecting all those involved in ...

Why do Public Sector bodies make it almost impossible for small companies to participate in the tendering process?

Here's a copy of an email I fired off today (in anger), finally lost the will to live...

Dear Sir/Madam

(CC: Stephen Philips – my ...

Do you have to “procure” something even if its free?

Similar problems to those my colleagues and I have experienced with a number of different procurement processes are often shared on ...

Should Procurement report into Finance?

A Newbie Supplier Introduction (with questions)

Hi everyone.

I've only just joined this group, as I have been looking at tendering to the public sector for a while.

I've read a few ...

Have you ever used the Negotiated procedure under EU Rules?

I am interested in hearing about people's experiences using the Negotiated Procedure under EU rules. What product / Service were you ...

Does anyone have any positive thoughts regarding PQQ's?

We've developed numerous policies, procedures, benchmarks and systems of work so that we can fill a questionnaire in better than our ...

Hi, Harrogate Borough Council are currently reviewing how we approach contracting with local (the loacl authority area) suppliers....

Does anyone know of any specific policies with regards to ensuring at least one quote under a specific threshold (we are proposing 50K) ...

Another frustrated supplier has joined ...........

Hi everyone.

As a newbie here, I thought I’d introduce myself.

My company currently supplies the public sector (in a very small way) ...

EVERYONE PLEASE READ MY CONCERNS and could anyone in local or central UK government procurement, or FM consultancy then explain the logic...

Do any of your schools face this risk?


Over the last year I have approached over 125 government & local authority procurement teams ...

LHC has launched a free guide to pre-tendered framework arrangements. Download it now at www.lhc.gov.uk/frameworkguide, or send me your...

The guide aims to help public sector officers to understand the advantages of choosing the procurement method over traditional processes

190 Local Councils have no formal arrangements for staff agency spend (total spend £325m). Why has procurement failed to deliver in this...

http://govmark.co.uk/free-download-the-1bn-market-for-agency-staff-in-local-government-2012/

SMEs and the 'contracts' debate

Are there ways to encourage local authorities to procure from local SMEs? How easy is it for SMEs to procure from central government?

Is SaaS the "next big thing" in the Procurement technology arena?

Cloud based Procurement solutions are the order of the day. Here is a demo of what SaaS based solutions can do!

could you hint: where I could find UK public procurement market statistics? any help deeply appreciated!