Agenda
29th & 30th June 2021
- Match making networking and live delegate meet ups
- Replay functions so you never miss a session
- Live chat, questioning and polling tools
- Real time resources and presentations
- A next generation conference engagement platform
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.
- Responding to COVID-19 and facilitating the transition to the future system of public procurement
- Levelling the playing field for SME’s supplying to the public sector
- How are we going to strengthen social value, modern slavery and sustainability in our solutions
- Power to your procurement – Supporting the Government’s ambitions around Carbon Net Zero – what does it mean for your estates, energy and infrastructure
- How has 2020/2021 and Covid-19 reshaped the debate around public procurement?
- Emerging from the Lockdown – what next for public procurement?
- How the Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper is set to impact public sector procurement
- Whether the green paper goes far enough and what it will mean for central and local government
- Upskilling commercial teams
Full session details TBC. If you’d like to sponsor a speaking session please get in touch with the team.
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.
- How technologies can improve outcomes – both in term of organisations financial resilience and the communities they serve?
- Can technology reduce both the time organisations spend on procurement processes and associated risks?
- Can frontier technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence or machine learning be realistically and practically applied to deliver the transform procurement?
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.
- Vision 2030: Local Government Procurement as a Public Service
- Knowing what we don’t know about localism and other trade-offs
- What streetlights can tell us about the future of local government procurement
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and guests from Energy Savings Trust, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Bath and North East Somerset Council will be sharing thoughts and insights to help you on your Carbon Net Zero journey.
During the session we will be exploring key elements of your Carbon Net Zero (CNZ) journey, what steps you can take and how to break down your requirements into more manageable and achievable chunks. Then looking ahead at the challenges you may face and what you can do to combat them.
- Coordination and cross-government action towards achieving net zero, supporting the development of strategy and driving delivery across government
- Overcoming ‘gaps’ in procurement targets and standards to achieve net-zero carbon emissions
- Managing risks and building resiliency
Session hosted by CPNI
The 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.
Sustainable procurement and “procurement with purpose” are hot topics in the private sector, whilst the public sector tends to talk about procurement for “social value”. Is this terminology leading to confusion? And what can different sectors and organisations learn from each other? Peter will first unravel any confusion, then will:
- Explain the different options within procurement for “purpose”/social value and how they link with different stakeholder groups
- Suggest how you can develop a strategy to get the most out of procurement with purpose / social value in your organisation
- Define the various ways in which you can work with suppliers to achieve your goals – and why some work better than others!
Hosted by:
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:
- How priorities for public sector have changed
- Why technology is crucial to adapt to a changing landscape
- The benefits of using DocuSign for a public sector customer
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.
Hear from the team and learn more about:
- How smart procurement generated savings for reinvestment in front-line services
- How to increase operational efficiencies through digitisation
- How a collaborative partnership can deliver value and innovation
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:
- Purchasing with Purpose – how can we shift towards sustainable and ethical business
- 2021 and beyond – what are the top priorities for the procurement function?
- How can cloud-based procurement help protect your business?
- How to partner with suppliers to drive value
- Embedding Counter Fraud into the Commercial Lifecycle
- Understanding dynamic purchasing systems
- Helping you deliver Social Value in your procurement process?
- Tech Procurement in Public Sector
- Contract Management
- Supplier Management
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:
- Reduce strain on support staff with payments that work first time
- Streamline operations with one payments partner
- Simplify reconciliation and provide predictable cash-flows
- Support payment methods including e-wallets direct debit open banking and international methods with one integration
- Monitor performance with a single view of payments across all departments
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:
- Background/challenges during the pandemic
- Common examples of increased risks around payments to Suppliers
- How to obtain assurance against these risks (utilising variation to existing framework)
- Who in the organisation should procure this service?
- How to use third party expertise and resources
- How a ‘10 day COVID-19 Health Check’ helps organisations address the increased financial risks
Learning Points:
- Impact of COVID-19 on ALL organisations (not just the Public Sector)
- Highlighting of additional ‘fraud or error’ risks faced
- Discussion of examples and types of errors that have occurred during the pandemic
- Potential financial and resource benefits from such a review
- Overview of the variation of the Framework Agreement
- The practicalities of a review
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
- Delivering a framework that delivers the best commercial outcomes for the public sector and business
- Ensuring we build a commercial workforce for the future
- Building the skills and capability to ensure taxpayers money is spent effectively and efficiently
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.
Exploring Manchester City Council’s approach to recovery initiatives from the pandemic and carbon reduction through new approaches to commissioning and procurement activity.
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.
- Benefits of collaborative procurement
- How the changing working landscape can benefit collaborativeworking
- How shared services can help you deliver your procurement outcomes
- How do you know how well a shared service is operating and can it do even more?
- Meeting the local government challenge through COVID-19
- Examining the evolving financial pressures on local government
- What support can be provided from central government?
- Effective innovative ways to delivering new services and to meet responsibilities for supporting financial sustainability across the sector
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.
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.
- Developing standards and capabilities for better procurement
- Collaborating to develop procurement-related expertise across the public sector
- The Strategic Importance of procurement in responding to the challenges facing public authorities, especially in delivering zero carbon goals
- The need to integrate procurement into innovation policy, its effectiveness in exploiting new technologies and supporting inventive companies, especially SMEs
- How procurement can boost “levelling up” by becoming the core programme for regional innovation hubs
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
Full session details TBC. If you’d like to sponsor a speaking session please get in touch with the team.
- Introduction to accessibility regulation
- Understanding the digital accessibility regulations
- Outline accessibility responsibilities of those procuring websites/apps
- Top tips for those responsible for procuring accessible website/apps and how to manage the relationship with suppliers to ensure products deliver meet legal standards and maximise the benefits to users
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:
- Challenges working across government;
- Looking after ourselves and our teams (during and after);
- Post-Covid crisis response, what have we learned?
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.
- Transforming public procurement through better contract management
- Achieving better outcomes and performance from your suppliers with the latest guidance, tools and techniques
- Best practice in contract management – challenges and successes
- The future of contract management
- Introduction to modern slavery and the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015
- Understanding modern slavery risks in public procurement
- Leading by example: leveraging the power of public procurement to address modern slavery
- With the economic impact of COVID-19 already impacting regions and localities, this panel session explores the way procurement can help local economies to promote employment creation and regenerate.
- Procurement as an enabler for employment and economic sustainability
- The impact of COVID-19 on different sectors and demographics
- Challenges with local supply chains in terms of capability, skills and product
- Mapping spending and local impact
- Raising living standards of localities and their residents
- Cultivating participation and citizen engagement
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:
- Introduction to PFI Contract Expiry
- The DVLA Accommodation PFI Contract
- Key issues to consider when preparing for PFI Contract Expiry
- Local Partnerships’ work with DVLA
- Lessons learnt
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:
- Purchasing with Purpose – how can we shift towards sustainable and ethical business
- 2021 and beyond – what are the top priorities for the procurement function?
- How can cloud-based procurement help protect your business?
- How to partner with suppliers to drive value
- Embedding Counter Fraud into the Commercial Lifecycle
- Understanding dynamic purchasing systems
- Helping you deliver Social Value in your procurement process?
- Tech Procurement in Public Sector
- Contract Management
- Supplier Management
Mark will cover the Covid Procurement experience in Wales looking at the challenges and issues that were encountered in the most difficult of circumstances.
Plymouth collaborative commissioning and alliance building for long term sustainable relationships with local charities and other service providers to plan for the future
- The national context of public sector financial constraint
- Local Government as market makers and place shapers through the power of the local pound
- Opportunities to drive social value through mainstream policies and not just procurement and commissioning
- Challenge to the procurement profession to grab the post-pandemic recovery as an opportunity to integrate first-class end to end procurement into the key visions and strategies for our places.
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:
- Key strategies supply chain leaders should look to in order to build more resilience
- Planning and provisioning for risks
- Building visibility, protecting supply and designing a more resilient supply chain network
- Developing robust contract and supplier management strategies that improve procurement of critical products and services
- The need for collaboration and engagement between all parties in a supply chain
- Reflecting broader goals linked to resource efficiency, climate change, social responsibility and economic resilience
- Sourcing the best procurement talent
- Implementing effective talent management to develop existing talent
- Diversifying the profession
- Workforce planning and management
