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Global Digital Marketplace

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.

Promoting gender equality and social inclusion through public procurement

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The Global Digital Marketplace team and partners at Oxford Insights explain how governments can reform public procurement, making it more inclusive whilst opening up supply chains, giving access to marginalised communities and driving economic growth.

The Global Digital Marketplace Programme: Moving into alpha

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GDS currently works with five partner countries across the world to help them design out corruption through user-centred approaches to procurement. This blog showcases the work from the initial alpha workshops and what’s next for the programme.

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...

Podcast: How the Global Digital Marketplace is helping to tackle corruption, a $2.6 trillion problem

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In the latest episode of the GDS podcast, senior writer Sarah Stewart talks to Chantal Donaldson-Foyer, Head of Product, and Warren Smith, Programme Director, about the Global Digital Marketplace.

The Global Digital Marketplace: multi-supplier delivery and what we’ve learned so far

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...set-up Our team has about 20 people, from GDS and 5 supplier partner organisations. While that might sound like a recipe for mayhem, the project was set up this way...

Help the Digital Marketplace go global

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...to support Smart City initiatives around the world can work with government organisations and suppliers to support international governments to deliver transformation We also want you to help us refine...