Programme
Key conference themes
International, including the work of OECD, UNCITRAL, WTO and Multilateral Development Banks
- World Bank: Global Procurement Partnership for Sustainable Development
- The GPA at 40/25
- Open data, data visualisation and OCDS
- Sustainability in procurement: green, social and inclusive procurement; gender neutrality, promotion and protection; climate change
- Continuing procurement reform and benchmarking
Procurement in practice
- Covid recovery strategies
- Auditing procurement
- Infrastructure procurement
- Compliance, litigation and remedies
- Digitalisation and artificial intelligence
EU/UK
- Post-Brexit procurement: are we there yet?
- Innovative and collaborative procurement
- Social value
- Single sourcing (in the UK and beyond)
- Access to information
Updates and analysis of UK Green Paper – Transforming public procurement
Day 1 Plenary Session:
Round-up of international developments, including post-Brexit procurement in the UK, EU reforms and GPA expansion.
Day 2 Plenary Session: The expanding scope of
sustainability objectives - climate change, gender, inclusiveness, modern slavery, building back better after Covid-19.
Speakers include:
- Cabinet Office
- OECD
- WTO
- The World Bank
- UNCITRAL