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3 months to go until Meet the Buyer National 2025!

Scottish Government Procurement

The countdown to Scotlands largest free procurement event is on. The 16 th annual Meet the Buyer National is set to return to Murrayfield Stadium on Wednesday 4 June 2025, from 9:30am to 3:30pm. Meet the Buyer National is hosted by the Supplier Development Programme and partnered by Scottish Government and Scotland Excel.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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Enhancing Competition in Public Procurement: Lessons from the NAO Report

Tracker Intelligence

Competition in public procurement is not limited to financial competition; it is a key source of innovation and guarantees the fair allocation of public contracts. If not resolved quickly, these issues could lead to higher costs, less innovation and missed opportunities to improve public services.

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Scottish Procurement Vlog – September 2024

Scottish Government Procurement

For further information on public procurement in Scotland please visit www.gov.scot/procurement Please email enquiries to scottishprocurement@gov.scot Follow us online: Single speaker transcript, Nick Ford: Hi everyone. The framework is used across the Scottish public sector, generating impressive savings of £7.5

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations.

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Collaborative Frameworks update: June 2024

Scottish Government Procurement

Further details can be found here: Vehicle hire contract 2020 to 2023 – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Publishing, Print, Design and Associated Services (PPDAS) The existing Cat A Framework for Publishing, Print, Design and Associated Services (PPDAS) is due to expire on 30 September 2025. Early development work on the re-let has commenced.

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Thirty3: a year on

Nitrous: Public Procurement

This is now recognised as vital to the public sector with the government stating that one-third of all procurement pounds must go to SMEs by 2025. With joint-procurement being so difficult, we had a real opportunity to bring this to Thirty3.

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