Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation summit platform.
Our team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools during the day.
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual conference: meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources or join one of Fireside Chats & Roundtables?
Bid rigging, where two or more rival companies secretly agree that one of them will win a contract during a tender process, is a type of cartel conduct. It can inflate contract costs by as much as 30%, tricking procurers into thinking that the prices and bids submitted are a result of genuine competition when in reality they’re being ripped off. At the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition watchdog, we’ve come down hard on businesses caught doing this. We fined five businesses a total of over £7 million for their part in cover bidding activity in the office fit-out sector. Six directors were also disqualified.
Georgina’s presentation will lift the lid on this case and others that have affected public spend, drawing out lessons learnt.
This fireside chat is an opportunity to hear Andrew Burns, Chairman of CIPFA CPRAS Technology Procurement Association (CCTPA) and CIPFA local government associate director, and Richard Hallewell, Chief Executive of CCTPA and CPRAS, explore the procurement and organisational challenge and technology’s impact upon the public sector– plus this event offers a great opportunity to input your thoughts, challenges, successes and ask questions around transformation procurement.
We are delighted to welcome the CPNI at the Public Sector Show.
This session will show the range of malicious threats facing the public and private sector and the vulnerabilities that can be mitigated by forethought and proportionate countermeasures that enable rather than inhibit the desired innovation.
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For those not familiar with Checkout.com, we’re the UK’s largest financial technology business – and one of the biggest globally.
Over the last nine years, we’ve built a global payments platform from our UK base, helping organizations to better manage their digital payments.
In short, we help organizations to receive payments from their service users – and to pay money out to them when the need arises – on a global scale.
Our cloud-based technology removes the complexity of the payments journey. It makes payments much more seamless for organizations than was ever possible in the past.
Through a single API integration with us, organizations can
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Public sector organisations are facing exacerbated challenges and uncertainty following the COVID-19 crisis. In order to maintain and provide quality services, these organisations are rethinking their processes and embracing new technologies.
DocuSign helps public sector organisations like Swansea Council to automate and simplify key processes so they can focus on what really matters, not paperwork.
In this session, we will look at:
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Prior to the onset of COVID, one of the most diverse London boroughs, Barking and Dagenham began initiating digital transformation efforts in partnership with Xerox to support their long-term vision: One borough, one community, no-one left behind. When pandemic restrictions were imposed, the council’s cloud and digital transition efforts were accelerated allowing the council to continue services and communication to their customers and fulfill procurement needs uninterrupted.
Hear from Paul Ingram, Chief Information Officer, and Carly Bucknell, Commercial Support Officer, on how the council was able to transition to digital and cloud-based services amidst a global pandemic and save around £200,000 for reinvestment in front-line services, in the first year alone.
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This panel will discuss how technology can help the public and healthcare sector improve their internal processes; build bridges and collaborate with the community better to offer them efficient and innovative services.
There are six broad sections:
During this break why not join one of four Fireside Chats & Roundtables
These sessions are open to all attendees and will allow you to drive your own learning and share experiences with others on a number of different subject areas in smaller, more interactive breakout rooms:
As our societies become increasingly data-centric and more public services than ever are now online; data privacy, security and availability have never been so important. The diverse array of individuals and organisations public authorities deal with must interact with each other and look up information in a secure and seamless way.
In this session we will explore the current state of data management, protection and disaster recovery practices in some of our local councils and outline key learnings and recommendations to enable you to deal with your data more effectively.
First and foremost payments need to work. From tax bills to tuition fees and parking permits it’s critical your customers can pay quickly and easily. But payments have the potential to do so much more. When done right they can deliver additional revenue and increase efficiencies for public sector organisations.
Drawing on experiences from our work with customers like Facebook Uber Spotify Casper Bonobos and L’Oreal we’ll explore how the public sector can:
The rise of disparate working has ushered in a new era of sustainability for the public sector. With staff working from home, public sector organisations and their employees have been able to cut down on the expense and environmental impact of both commuting, and maintaining large swathes of office space.
Homeworking has become a huge part of the drive towards green policies, social value, and increased sustainability. However, with the right solution in place, it can also be the key to community-wide systems integration, unlimited citizen engagement scalability, and enhanced, evergreen data security. Join Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO and Co-Founder of Content Guru, to discover the technology driving a more sustainable, scalable, and secure public sector.
Twice2much share their experiences from undertaking reviews for Clients during the course of the pandemic, including highlighting examples where error payments have been made and identified generating direct financial benefits.
Responding to COVID-19 meant that many Public Sector organisations had to implement rapid changes to processes significantly increasing the potential risk of money being ‘lost’ due to fraud or error.
The challenge for ALL Public Sector organisations is how they can achieve assurance that money has not been lost during this pandemic and at the same time establish and/or quantify the value of losses.
This session will cover the following topics:
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In this presentation, Nicky Stewart and Andy Tait, will guide you through:
Choose the sessions that best suit your interests this afternoon, as we break out into three streams – Central Government, Local Government and Sustainability, Social Value & Green Procurement
This presentation will describe the innovative approach used by Essex County Council to collate publicly available data and internal intelligence to create a holistic view of supplier risk in the social care sector. It will describe how this model has been used to proactively manage risk and target interventions to help the market recover from the impact of COVID-19.
An award-winning government department will discuss their approach to integrating commercial, delivery and finance teams across contracts and suppliers. They will cover complex supply chains and contract exit to demonstrate the benefits of collaboration.
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.
For thousands of years, before the industrial revolution, the UK operated within a cottage economy. Citizens worked from their homes, and spent their money within their local communities.
The rise of digitally-powered homeworking has re-established this pre-industrial lifestyle.
By allowing employees to choose where they are based, flexible working policies are helping to iron out regional inequalities, and create greater economic opportunities for smaller towns and local businesses in the now non-dormitory countryside.
However, how can we be sure that long-term flexible working will have a lasting impact on local communities? And how can organisations build ‘work from wherever’ strategies that support those employees who can’t work from their home environment?
Join Content Guru for a roundtable discussion in which we’ll be exploring how flexible working is the key to building resilient, sustainable local economies.
The recent Green Paper acknowledged that Public Procurement has “significant potential as a strategic lever to drive innovation in the UK” but offered a limited range of proposals in response. In this session, we bring together speakers with global experience in innovation procurement to show how it can boost innovative products and services, engage inventive providers, nurture start-ups, and grow innovation hubs across the UK. They will consider how strategic procurement can underpin ambitions for post COVID recovery, levelling up, and meeting zero carbon goals.
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation summit platform.
Our team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools during the day.
As we move through 2021, a new procurement regime, no longer bound by EU Directives will be put in place, aiming to promoting British business and the local economy. In this session we will look at the impact of Brexit on public procurement
In March 2020 the Government stepped up its commercial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Complex Transactions team quickly re-deployed its resources to critical activities, including the Ventilator Challenge, procurement of PPE, testing capabilities, the set-up of the Nightingale Hospitals, and the Civil Contingencies Secreatriat’s ‘Excess Deaths’ programme, providing leadership in delivering the commercial arrangements to secure supplies and services, and working at rapid pace under highly pressurised conditions. CTT enabled the delivery of 15,154 ventilators, designed and built within 4.5 months, and 32bn pieces of PPE, as well as increasing daily testing capacity from 3,000 to 100,000 in 6 weeks. The team was awarded the Civil Service Award for Commercial 2021 in recognition of its work in this area, in part due to glowing testimonials from senior government officials and ministers.
Key points arising from the response that I will speak to include:
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.
An informal discussion around the topic of PFI contract expiry. In particular, to tease out some of the issues that the DVLA is experiencing in their process. The session will cover:
During this break why not join one of four Fireside Chats & Roundtables
These sessions are open to all attendees and will allow you to drive your own learning and share experiences with others on a number of different subject areas in smaller, more interactive breakout rooms:
Mark will cover the Covid Procurement experience in Wales looking at the challenges and issues that were encountered in the most difficult of circumstances.
We hear from two local authorities on how commissioning can be made more adaptive, value based, collaborative and person centered. Effective commissioning needs to consider how structures and systems promote and:
Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic are changing the priorities of many supply chain leaders. In this new and uncertain environment there is a real need to balance value and efficiency with resilience. We discuss: