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Updated Scottish Government Procurement Strategy 2025 – 2028

Scottish Government Procurement

Today marks the publication of the updated Scottish Government Procurement Strategy 2025-2028. Every year we award contracts for a range of goods, services and works and through these, help to deliver efficient and effective public services.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies.

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Effectiveness and Efficiency in Public Procurement: Key Pillars for Optimal Resource Management

The Procurement ClassRoom

It is concerned with the “what” of public procurement—focusing on procuring goods , services , and works that meet specific requirements, delivered on time, within budget, and at the required quality. This supports not only the public sector entity and its stakeholders but also the broader community.

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What are the main governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation?

University of Bristol

Approximately a third of public sector spending goes to procure third-party goods, services, and works. New digital governance risks and requirements are not always recognised or understood. This can in turn result in excessive experimentation with digital technologies for procurement governance in the name of transformation.

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Meet the Buyer 2024 – Get live advice on how to win work on Scottish Frameworks

Scottish Government Procurement

The panel will include speakers from Scotland Excel, Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC), NHS National Services Scotland (NHS NSS) and The Scottish Government Procurement and Property Directorate. NHS National Services Scotland (NHS NSS) will discuss frameworks for health bodies.

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DoD award lead times increased for higher value contracts

Federal News Network

A government watchdog agency said that while there have been improvements in contracting processes since DoD began collecting data to measure PALT in 2018, the award lead times vary depending on total contract value, contracting approach, contract type, extent of competition and the type of product or service procured.

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New HHS request for proposals, has industry up in arms

Federal News Network

And that means that the government has to actually spend more money on the contract. Well, the service contract act as it’s currently structured, doesn’t let you do that. But that’s a lousy way to fix what’s a universal problem across all government contracting. It’s not the government.

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