

Government Needs to Refocus on SME Involvement in Govtech Contracts
Eight weeks ago techUK published the results of its fourth annual Govtech SME Survey. The poll of 101 SME leaders provides great insights into the challenges SMEs continue to face when supplying (or attempting to supply) to the public sector, writes Romy Hughes, Director, Brightman. It also provides another level of analysis from which to measure the government’s commitment to spend 33 percent of public sector procurement directly with SMEs by 2022. The challenges that SMEs f