Government Procurement Service

Attendance at the LGSAS framework induction day in London was the ideal opportunity to learn more about just exactly how the Government Procurement service will work in practice to deliver its mutual goal with us in targeting savings for the UK Public Sector as a whole and its role to specifically to deliver centralised procurement for Central Government Departments.

It was interesting to learn about a wide range of topics that included just who can use Government Procurement Service, why they should use Government Procurement Service through to matters about how we as organisation can market and utilise our solutions via the procurement portal.

One of the more interesting facts that came to light was just exactly how the organisation was funded. After all an organisation that operates and manages so many government procurement exercises and framework must surely come at some significant cost to the taxpayer before it can actually deliver the savings its promises? Well absolutely not, as the Government Procurement Service is a Trading Fund, using a supplier commission model to fund operations and support continuous improvement in Government’s procurement capability, which to mind is the only government service delivering significant savings at absolutely zero cost to the British taxpayer.