INTRODUCTIONIn the North West Region of England, innovative councils have found ways to deliver better services and best value at reasonable costs through a variety of ways, including streamlining their procurement processes, working in partnership, pooling buying power, establishing partnerships and framework agreements with the private sector, building internal capacity and capability, using current stock and assets to catalyse community regeneration, reconfiguring and modernizing operational portfolios, raising capital through asset sales (for example, non-operational properties) and co-locating services in shared multi-service centers (ConEx, 2007)
The UK public sector spends approximately 12.5% of GDP buying goods and services. Failures in procur...
The construction industry in the UK has a history of client dissatisfaction. Criticisms have been in...
This article develops severalframeworks for the analysis ofsupply strategies employedfor public sect...
Framework agreements are emerging as a construction management tool used by public authorities to ac...
Collaborative procurement is increasingly on the policy agenda in different countries, yet organisa...
In 2008/09, the public sector spent £220 billion on goods and services alone, accounting for one thi...
Collaborative construction frameworks have been developed in the UK to create longer term relationsh...
Use of frameworks is recognized by the UK Industrial Strategy: Government and Industry in Partnershi...
This paper discusses recent changes in the way public services are delivered A marked increase in th...
Public procurement partnerships represent a new approach to conducting government acquisition. These...
Current literature offers little understanding about how procurement methods are enacted in practice...
The thesis is about the shift of UK public sector procurement from the current transactional and tac...
Recent innovative initiatives within the public sector construction procurement are challenging trad...
Central government in Britain spends billions of dollars a year in goods and services, presenting a ...
Sustainable and social procurement are growing practices being applied across the public and private...
The UK public sector spends approximately 12.5% of GDP buying goods and services. Failures in procur...
The construction industry in the UK has a history of client dissatisfaction. Criticisms have been in...
This article develops severalframeworks for the analysis ofsupply strategies employedfor public sect...
Framework agreements are emerging as a construction management tool used by public authorities to ac...
Collaborative procurement is increasingly on the policy agenda in different countries, yet organisa...
In 2008/09, the public sector spent £220 billion on goods and services alone, accounting for one thi...
Collaborative construction frameworks have been developed in the UK to create longer term relationsh...
Use of frameworks is recognized by the UK Industrial Strategy: Government and Industry in Partnershi...
This paper discusses recent changes in the way public services are delivered A marked increase in th...
Public procurement partnerships represent a new approach to conducting government acquisition. These...
Current literature offers little understanding about how procurement methods are enacted in practice...
The thesis is about the shift of UK public sector procurement from the current transactional and tac...
Recent innovative initiatives within the public sector construction procurement are challenging trad...
Central government in Britain spends billions of dollars a year in goods and services, presenting a ...
Sustainable and social procurement are growing practices being applied across the public and private...
The UK public sector spends approximately 12.5% of GDP buying goods and services. Failures in procur...
The construction industry in the UK has a history of client dissatisfaction. Criticisms have been in...
This article develops severalframeworks for the analysis ofsupply strategies employedfor public sect...