How to purchase services

Procurement specialists within public sector are under increasing pressure to achieve savings and open up opportunities to SME organisations. Government set an aspiration of 25% of government procurement spend to reach SME’s by 2015. This has been subsequently increased to a target of 33% by 2020. Having a simple and compliant route to market is important for both public sector and SME’s alike.
Potential routes to market

  1. Useful for low spend service or commodities.
  1. Not so useful for more complex services
  1. Time consuming process and requires a significant amount of effort in establishing sufficiently detailed specifications to allow industry to respond
  2. Can Stifle innovation, specifications have to be standardised and equalised to ensure fair evaluation. (lowest common dominator)
  1. Single Source direct purchase,
  1. OJEU – Full competition,
  1. Fully compliant with EU procurement rules
  2. Opens the spend opportunity to the whole market

Pro's

Pro's

Cons

Cons

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How to purchase services

Procurement specialists within public sector are under increasing pressure to achieve savings and open up opportunities to SME organisations. Government set an aspiration of 25% of government procurement spend to reach SME’s by 2015. This has been subsequently increased to a target of 33% by 2020. Having a simple and compliant route to market is important for both public sector and SME’s alike.
Potential routes to market

  1. Single Source direct purchase,
  2. Pro’s
  3. Useful for low spend service or commodities.
  4. Cons
  5. Not so useful for more complex services
  6. OJEU – Full competition,
  7. Pro’s
  8. Fully compliant with EU procurement rules
  9. Opens the spend opportunity to the whole market.
  10. Cons’s
  11. Time consuming process and requires a significant amount of effort in establishing sufficiently detailed specifications to allow industry to respond
  12. Can Stifle innovation, specifications have to be standardised and equalised to ensure fair evaluation. (lowest common dominator)
Framework

Frameworks come in various shapes and sizes including specialist regional and sector specific frameworks. The most universal frameworks are those established and managed by Crown Commercial Services.

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Framework

Frameworks come in various shapes and sizes including specialist regional and sector specific frameworks. The most universal frameworks are those established and managed by Crown Commercial Services.
Within the IT space the primary framework agreements are:

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