Public Sector Procurement
Public Services Network
Established in 2006, the Public Sector Procurement (PSP) stream brings together public sector leaders and senior executives from the private sector to addresses the most important and timely issues in commercial and procurement transformation.
The programme promotes the adoption best practice and new ideas in securing better value for money from the public sector's annual £220bn spend on goods and services.
The network provides a regular, structured, cross-sector environments to identify, share and promote procurement best practice.
The power of the network programme derives from the formidable collective experience of its public and private sector participants.
Themes for 2010
- Implementing the Coalition's programme for government: including the impact of Budget 2010 and the spending review
- How procurement supports the new Efficiency and Reform Group agenda
- Supporting economic growth through innovation in public procurement
- Sustainability in the recovery
- Optimising efficiencies through outsourcing; shared services and partnership models
- Better decision making through better management information
- Procurement practice design and performance management
- Other themes as determined by network participants
Public Services Insights: best practice themes:
- Culture change through performance management
- Best practice in executing rapid change
- Sustainability in public services
- Innovating for efficiency: cross sector working for cost effective services
- Options for radically reducing the cost of services
- Better working with the commercial sector
Network benefits
- Innovate for new insight: evidence shows that innovation comes from cross-sector exchange
- Supporting the delivery of major efficiency savings by identifying and spreading existing and new ideas that work
- Financial return: invest wisely, access new improvement ideas, reduce cycle-times and assure programme quality
- Improving performance: find practical new ideas based on cross-sector experience
- Qualifying investment priorities: distinguish rhetoric vs. reality, invest time and money on what really counts, not what does not
- Risk reduction: with better targeting of resources and spend
- Understanding sector and market changes: better and more reliable market intelligence
- Benchmarking effectively: in depth comparisons of success and learning across sectors to target performance improvement programmes
- Generating credible evidence for the Board level decision making: validate strategies based on the experience and evidence from world leaders in change
- Better public / private programmes: the collaborative programme generates better public / private understanding, relationships and programme outcomes
- Networking: build long-term professional and personal connections
What does the network include?
- Regular experience sharing groups (ESGs)
- Thought leadership discussions
- Best practice development groups and publication of best practice insight outputs
- Case studies and site visits
- Best practice knowledge store (access to network guidelines on best practice and meeting archive with meeting insights, presentations from members and agendas)
Programme Details
Public Sector Procurement Programme
Public Sector Procurement Guidelines
Public Sector Procurement Example Agenda
