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💥Let’s talk about « #Competition in #publicprocurement  markets» : a wide topic with many questions: 👉🏼Are governments #attractiveclients for firms? 👉🏼Are public buyers designing the best #strategies to ensure access to a wide range of suppliers? 👉🏼How are #digitaltechnologies leveraged by different stakeholders to support competition? 👉🏼How #data can be leveraged to enhance competition in public procurement markets ? 👉🏼What are the emerging trends in #bidrigging and how they can be detected in public tenders? … 👥It’s time to bring together the procurement and competition communities to discuss these key questions impacting directly or indirectly our daily lives through the provision of #publicservices. 🗓️Join us at the first OECD event covering the topic on the 27th of October in Paris ! Paulo Magina Erika Bozzay Despina Pachnou Sanda Jugo Simon Cox András Hlács Costanza Caputi Jacobo Pastor García villarreal

✋ Public procurement is no longer just about buying goods and services—it has become a powerful instrument shaping industrial competitiveness, supply chain resilience, and global trade. 👉 The new report, 'Public Procurement, Trade and Industrial Policies' by the OECD - OCDE highlights how governments are increasingly leveraging procurement to strengthen domestic industries while balancing openness, competition, and resilience in an era of geopolitical uncertainty. ✋ I see this development as evidence that public procurement is emerging as one of the most influential industrial policy tools of this decade. While strategic procurement can accelerate domestic manufacturing, innovation, and economic resilience, excessive protectionism risks raising costs, reducing competition, and weakening global value chains. The challenge for policymakers is to strike the right balance between strategic autonomy and open, rules-based trade. 👉 Key takeaways: 🔹 Public procurement accounts for 12.7% of GDP across OECD countries, making it a critical lever for economic transformation. 🔹 Governments are increasingly using procurement to support domestic industries through local content requirements, price preferences, SME support, and innovation incentives. 🔹 International agreements such as the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) remain vital for ensuring transparency, non-discrimination, and market access. 🔹 Friend-shoring and reshoring strategies can improve resilience but may also increase costs and concentrate supply chain risks. 🔹 Only 23% of countries assess the economic impacts of public procurement, highlighting the need for stronger evidence-based policymaking. 🔹 The OECD calls for better impact assessments, greater transparency, digital procurement tools, and procurement policies that balance competitiveness, resilience, and open trade. #PublicProcurement #IndustrialPolicy #TradePolicy #SupplyChains #EconomicResilience #Competitiveness #Innovation #EconomicDevelopment #SustainableGrowth ✋ Follow my substack, 'The Monthly Global Energy & Climate Transition Roundup', covering top developments in clean energy and climate. 👉 Subscribe for free at https://lnkd.in/d-6Efimt

Critical infrastructure and essential services, on which we all depend, are only as resilient as the supply chains that support them. From geopolitical instability and conflict to energy shocks and changing trade patterns, recent events have brought this into sharper focus. This week MAP UK & International published the Critical Supply Group's UK Supply Report 2026. Drawing on the views of almost 200 businesses across the UK, the report identifies opportunities to strengthen critical supply chains by making better use of existing UK capability, while recognising that, as a trading nation, our resilience depends on both strong domestic capability and trusted international partnerships. It also reflects collaboration between industry, government and academia, bringing together practical experience and evidence to help inform future policy, procurement and investment decisions. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the survey, to the many organisations that helped shape and support this work, and my MAP colleagues for their work on it: Beata S., Ellie Catherall, Edward Sweeney, Aristides (Aris) Matopoulos, Megan Stentiford, Eduarda Werneck and Jonathan Simpson Tarling. If you work in UK procurement, supply chains or a critical sector, please access the full report via the following link: https://lnkd.in/eUcuE67D And get in touch if you’d like to get involved in this work or learn more about the Critical Supply Group or MAP UK & International: info@mapukinternational.com

This is a very timely report which provides many insights into this critical enabler of economic and societal wellbeing.

Public procurement data is much more than a list of active tenders. When millions of procurement records are properly collected, structured and analysed, they can reveal market developments, purchasing patterns, supplier activity and differences between countries. I am pleased that data from Tender Service Group could support European procurement research and contribute to a better understanding of public procurement markets. This is also a good example of how our data can be used beyond tender monitoring = by researchers, public institutions, consultancies and companies developing procurement intelligence solutions. Ready to take an advantage on the data to take your market share ? More details in the original post below. 👇 #PublicProcurement #ProcurementData #MarketIntelligence #DataAnalytics #Research

A company bidding for a public contract in its home country can be up to 900 times more likely to win than a foreign competitor — inside the EU's supposedly single market. That's the headline finding of a new report from the European Policy Innovation Council (EPIC) on the cost of single-market fragmentation. Nearly three decades after Europe opened public tenders to cross-border competition, only about 7% of contracting authorities received even a single foreign bid between 2016 and 2019. As Mario Draghi has warned, the single market still stops at national procurement borders. What this means for Europe: Public procurement is worth roughly 14% of EU GDP. If Brussels can't make its own contract market genuinely European, its promises of scale and competitiveness ring hollow. The Commission's procurement revision, due in 2026, is the real test. https://lnkd.in/eqvKRxAN #EUPolicy #SingleMarket #Procurement #Competitiveness #EuropeanUnion

Today, Andy Burnham spoke about "re-industrialising Britain, using public procurement to back British industry." It was a timely reminder that procurement is no longer just about buying goods and services. It's one of government's most powerful levers for growth, innovation and public value. That's why we are pleased to share that The Global Commission on International Government Procurement, Commercial Growth & Efficiency will launch on 19th October 2026. Following roundtables with government leaders from Canada to New Zealand and major public sector suppliers, the report sets out practical recommendations for how procurement can better drive commercial growth, efficiency and stronger public outcomes. We hope you'll join the APPG for Public Sector Efficiency as we launch the findings and continue the conversation. To find out more, make sure you follow the page.

Procurement done well can be an engine for excellent government - having the ability to support British businesses, deliver against policy and social value targets and ensure that outcomes are delivered in a way which ensures both value for money and excellent service. The work done by the APPG for Public Sector Efficiency will ensure that best practice from around the world can be incorporated into how the UK government at the local, regional and national level buys, contracts and manages suppliers. For anyone working in Procurement and Supply Chain - the APPG is pursuing work across many work streams impacting all areas of public commercial work - it's worth a follow to ensure you can get involved with this groundbreaking work as it progresses.

The Critical Supply Group (CSG) has published the findings of a survey of almost 200 businesses supplying critical sectors in the UK, including: - UK companies are underutilised, indicating opportunities to strengthen domestic supply and sovereign capability.  - Procurement processes are the biggest barrier preventing companies from supplying more to critical sectors.  - Energy is the operational dependency companies rely on most.  - Access to critical inputs is stable for most businesses but becoming more constrained.  - SMEs face the greatest visibility, engagement and resilience gaps.     Read the full UK Supply Report 2026 here: https://lnkd.in/edF2f6J9 Policy Connect was pleased to collaborate on the survey, at a time when supply chain resilience increased in importance for businesses and governments, following shocks including conflict in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, and other ongoing shifts in global geopolitics. Thank you to all the companies in our network that responded. The report was delivered by MAP UK & International through the CSG. The Critical Supply Group is a business-led, cross-sector alliance of companies and professionals working together to strengthen critical supply chains, in the UK and internationally.  For information or partnership opportunities with CSG, visit https://lnkd.in/en7JufDx or email info@mapukinternational.com. If interested in contributing to future Industry Policy with Policy Connect, please contact Rob Allen (robert.allen@policyconnect.org.uk)

Ti’s CEO calls for implementation of Covid Inquiry’s recommendations. This week the fifth module of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been published. The research and report, supported by Ti Insight's CEO, Professor John Manners-Bell who acted as the Inquiry’s supply chain and logistics Expert Witness, provides a number of recommendations to ensure that the UK will be better prepared for a future pandemic. https://lnkd.in/eQiEzenS #pandemic #covid #logistics #supplychain