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New procurement rules ‘to boost social value’
The government’s chief commercial officer shares more details about the impetus behind the creation of a national procurement policy
GOV.UK
09 Jun 2021
New procurement guidance for departments is intended to help focus efforts around social value to maximise the benefits of public spending, the government’s chief commercial officer has told
CSW.
Gareth Rhys Williams said the new national procurement policy statement aims to increase the benefits of public spending by streamlining how procurement teams use government contracts to meet key policy aims.
“The idea is this will be a statement [published] once a parliament from the government saying ‘we want you to major on these two, three, or four things’,” he said. “We’re trying to just focus everyone’s efforts on national strategic priorities rather than just having everyone going off hither and yon.”
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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Workday to provide public sector customers with discounted pricing on its cloud based applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management and analytics.
The new deal can be accessed through the data and application solutions and back office software frameworks.
Workday is already used by the Cabinet Office, the Department for Education and UK Research and Innovation. Last year the Financial Conduct Authority agreed a five year £11.5 million contract with the supplier, also agreed through CCS.
“This memorandum of understanding with Workday will allow the public sector to access a range of discounts on cloud products, supporting the digital transformation of the UK public sector as we build back better,” said Philip Orumwense, CCS commercial director and chief technology procurement officer.
Workday, Inc.: Workday Partners With Crown Commercial Service to Help Accelerate Innovation in the Public Sector
LONDON, May 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
Workday (https://www.workday.com/en-gb/homepage.html) (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for
finance (https://www.workday.com/en-gb/applications/financial-management.html) and
human resources (https://www.workday.com/en-gb/applications/human-capital-management.html), and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) today announced they are building on their existing relationship with the signature of a new MoU which aims to expand the use of cloud technology and help drive innovation in the UK public sector.
With the Workday suite of applications, including
UK government signs new three-year Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft
April 21, 2021 | Microsoft reporter
The UK government has signed a new three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Microsoft to enable public sector organisations to continue to unlock the benefits of cloud computing and business applications.
The new MOU, entitled the Digital Transformation Arrangement 2021 (DTA21), allows all eligible public sector organisations to benefit from discounts and beneficial terms for Microsoft 365, Azure as well as associated Support and Consulting services, and for the first time â Dynamics 365 and Power Platform cloud services.
DTA21 renews the existing DTA MOU as a three-year agreement starting on May 1, 2021, and runs until April 2024. It brings together Microsoft 365, which includes Modern Workplace offerings such as Teams, the current Azure Pricing Arrangement (APA) and expands into new areas such as Business Applications.