Despite numerous initiatives to improve value-for-money and support growing businesses by bringing more SMEs into the supply chain, it would seem that many vital public services are still being awarded to the same handful of major contractors. The problem is that these contractors have either failed to meet their obligations previously, and/or been driven out of business by contracts that were designed to fail from the outset. Clearly this situation is unsustainable. There ar

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

What else can the government do to accelerate the digitisation of public services and improve its G-Cloud offering? From our recent analysis of the government’s procurement approach (Taking the brakes off: How SMEs can be unleashed to drive the rapid digitisation of the public sector), we shared our criticisms of the numerous framework agreements that have been established in recent years to make it easier for businesses to bid for government contracts. The UK public sector c

This is a snippet of an article that was first published by IT Pro Portal. To read the full article, visit here. According to recent statistics from the Federation of Small Businesses, SMEs are still only awarded 19 per cent of public sector technology contracts. This is despite the UK Government introducing many improvements to its technology procurement process to make it more open to all organisations. In addition to that, while the UN might consider the UK public sector’s

The government has since committed to spending 33% of public sector procurement directly with SMEs by 2022, with plenty of great policies be

Brightman, the IT transformation and change management experts, have today announced that their “Service Transition” proposition is available on the newly-launched Crown Campus by Crown Hosting Data Centres. The Crown Campus, which launched today, is a secure location with established communities of specialist public sector framework service providers, Crown Hosting and public sector organisations. It provides a space for secure knowledge sharing to deliver protected services