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The Association for Consultancy and Engineering has welcomed the government’s plans to review and reform public sector procurement and to ease the regulatory burden on business.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced new plans to simplify procurement and open up contracts to more small businesses in his autumn statement. This should see best practice driven across the public sector.
ACE chief executive, Nelson Ogunshakin OBE, said: “Industry is keenly aware that government must ensure the taxpayer gets as good value from its money as possible. ACE’s latest State of Business report indicates that around two thirds of firms in the consultancy and engineering sector rate current experiences of central government procurement as poor or worse, and these moves will help to address this.
“Improving public procurement in line with best practice will help to ensure projects can be delivered more effectively and efficiently. There are good examples available to learn from, such as the Olympic programme that operated an efficient procurement system that enabled it to report efficiency savings of £27million.”
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Notes to editors
ACE’s State of Business Report found that 65% of firms rated central government procurement processes as poor or very poor. For Local government poor of very poor procurement was reported by 70% of companies.
The ODA pledge efficiency savings in June 2010, as set out here.
For media inquiries please contact Gavin Pearson (gpearson@acenet.co.uk) (020 7202 0255)
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