Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 4, 2025

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. Keep an eye on the Meet the Buyer event page for speaker announcements.

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Buyers Supplier Supply Chain Public Procurement 62

Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. in 2021 to 4.2

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Procurement Public Procurement Tender E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As well in June, we had Meet the Buyer National, a great event that took place in Hampden Park in Glasgow, where businesses, social enterprises, and third sector organisations, all came together with Scottish public procurers. We recently awarded a new gas framework to begin when the current framework expires in March 2025.

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Procurement Buyers Public Procurement Supplier 57

Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This is particularly problematic for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which often need more resources to participate in complex, bureaucratic tender processes dominated by a few more prominent competitors. As a result, the UK public sector may be missing out on SMEs’ innovation and flexibility.

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Public Procurement Procurement Tender Framework Agreement 52

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Further details can be found here: Procurement – media planning buying and associated services: guidance – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Recruitment Ads and Pins The renewal process for Recruitment Ads and Pins is underway with tender submissions being evaluated. Work on the re-let has commenced and currently it is out to Tender.

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Collaboration E-catalogue Framework Agreement E-procurement 67

Nitrous: Public Procurement

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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. Boroughs need guidance on innovative procurement practices and making tenders be more SME-friendly. However, making tenders more SME-friendly aren’t the final piece of the puzzle.

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Tender Joint Procurement Supplier Procurement 52