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Warren Smith - former Director for the Global Digital Marketplace Programme, Government Digital Service

Buying digitally, with social purpose

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The Government Digital Service worked with organisations across government, alongside multilaterals, to create the Digital Buying Guide. It helps civil servants in governments across the world improve their procurement processes. Read to find out how and why it was created.

Engaging UK suppliers in the Global Digital Marketplace Programme alpha phase

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...research, service design and agile working skills and experience. We’ll also look to bring a user-centred approach to procurement practice by working with users to design new routes to market...

How GDS is helping tackle global corruption

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...user-centred, design-led, data-driven and open approaches can bring about the much needed reform of public procurement and contracting. Gavin Hayman, executive director of the Open Contracting Partnership, sums up nicely...

Help the Digital Marketplace go global

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...Digital Marketplace is a partnership between GDS and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It aims to help international governments make their procurement more transparent, in order to prevent corruption and...

Why spend data is important for the Digital Marketplace

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...to SMEs. Geographical locations of all suppliers on the Digital Marketplace, to August 2017 The European Union's definition of an SME is a point-in-time status based on its number of...

Open procurement for a digital government

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...'ICT procurement reform'. My colleague Chad Bond, Deputy Director, Standards Assurance, supported me. Contributions also came from our counterparts in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Chile. There are many practical...

Improving and opening up procurement and contract data

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...of the procurement process Public registers will help Having authoritative, trusted lists or ‘registers’ of public sector buying organisations, and suppliers to the public sector, will be a major step...