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Wednesday 20th July 2011
Cheaper and Quicker Government Procurement
It was announced in The Guardian today that the UK Government will be drastically attempting to reduce it's own deficit, and save billions of pounds, by buying basic goods and services cheaper, and quicker than ever before. 
 
Pessimists amongst us may well point out that this is not the first time that the Government has claimed to have drastic plans to streamline it's public procurement practices. Prior attempts have seen extremely limited success. 
 
However, John Collington, has been quoted as claiming that Central Government procurement can definitely be cut by more than £3 billion per year by 2015, if the Government is more streamlined in everything from purchasing basic office supplies, right through to specialist consultants. 
 
A large part of the plan is setting agreed contracts, prices, and specifications, which Government departments must abide by when sourcing good or services in the public sector. This is in order to stop occurrences of different departments paying drastically different prices, for exactly the same items. 
 
As well as setting price standards, there are also proposed cuts in the amount of time that it takes for contracts to be agreed with suppliers, bringing it down to 40 weeks, from the current 77 weeks.
 
If all goes well this time around, and the Government does hit on an effective way to reduce costs and timescales in public sector procurement, then there may be lessons here for us all to learn. 


Posted by: Admin, on July 20th 2011 on 02:31pm
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