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How do you solve a problem like procurement?
How do you solve a problem like procurement?
Connected Places Catapult is seeking input on practical steps to reduce obstacles in the procurement of innovative solutions and services.
Nicola Yates OBE
Oct 16, 2019
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Radical innovation for places in the age of COVID-19
Radical innovation for places in the age of COVID-19
Reflections on questions posed during a webinar with the Challenging Procurement team at Connected Places Catapult.
Sam Markey
May 18, 2020
How responses to Covid-19 can energise innovative procurement
How responses to Covid-19 can energise innovative procurement
Dealing with Coronavirus has shown that we don’t need new tools for buying innovation, we just need to get better at using the ones we…
Malcolm Harbour CBE
May 7, 2020
Why Commissioning Needs Radical Procurement
Why Commissioning Needs Radical Procurement
Innovation Partnerships, collaborative commissioning, market scanning and more: 10 signs public sector procurement is getting radical.
Paul Conneely
Mar 9, 2020
Stepping from Procurement to Partnership
Stepping from Procurement to Partnership
Four years on, what impact has the ‘The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement’ had on how the public sector buys innovation?
Julian Blake
Mar 3, 2020
Plant a spotlight on the problems you are trying to solve, and open it up for others to innovate
Plant a spotlight on the problems you are trying to solve, and open it up for others to innovate
Procurement, often perceived to be rigid, slow and expensive, has the potential to catalyse re-imagining and improvement in local services.
Graeme McDonald
Dec 18, 2019
Innovation Partnerships: An effective but under-used tool for buying innovation
Innovation Partnerships: An effective but under-used tool for buying innovation
Looking to explore several potential solutions with the market and easily buy the one that works? Consider an Innovation Partnership.
Claire Gamage
Oct 30, 2019
The Challenging Procurement Link Library
The Challenging Procurement Link Library
There’s a wealth of guidance on approaches to public procurement that allow for innovation. To save you searching we’ve summarised them…
Gavin Summerson
Oct 25, 2019
Suppliers’ six steps to support greater public sector innovation
Suppliers’ six steps to support greater public sector innovation
Public sector spending can be used to drive innovation, but it takes a change in strategy and approach.
Elizabeth Crowhurst
Oct 24, 2019
New approaches to innovative procurement
New approaches to innovative procurement
How the SBRI approach enabled Belfast City Council to think differently about buying innovative solutions and services.
Gavin Summerson
Oct 17, 2019
Innovation block? The problem with procurement
Innovation block? The problem with procurement
Innovation is driving significant changes in the way we work, live, and interact with each other. In many ways it is quite literally…
Sam Markey
Oct 15, 2019
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