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Drawing
on his consultancy experience and government background
– including posts in MoD HQ and HM Treasury –
Digby specialises in helping companies win and profit
from public sector business, advising in particular
on marketing strategy and tender preparation. His experience
includes research, operational/decision analysis, resource
allocation, project management and acquisition, especially
the development of procurement strategies, ITTs and
tender evaluation schemes. |
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Doug
has worked in the procurement field since completing
a Business Studies degree in the 1970s. The greater
part of his career has been spent in manufacturing industry
although the last 12 years have been in the utilities
sector, latterly as Procurement Director for Scottish
Power plc. Most recently he led the initiative to file
an application with the EU for exemption from the Utilities
Directive for those parts of the UK energy industry
fully exposed to competition. Doug is a current member
of the Board of Management of the Chartered Institute
of Purchasing and Supply and a Non-Executive Director
of Scottish Enterprise (Ayrshire). |
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Martin
is a procurement professional trained by the Ford Motor
Company. As an innovator, motivator and experienced
negotiator, he is a progressive procurement practitioner
with supply chain skills and extensive public and private
sector experience, both in the UK and abroad. His training,
interim management, and electronic procurement. |
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Colin,
a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and
Supply, has held senior positions in public sector procurement
for the past 25 years, including central government,
higher education and local authorities. He has been
responsible throughout for initiating and implementing
innovative procurement strategies for a wide range of
goods, services and outsourcings and creating and re-engineering
procurement organisations and collaborative groups.
Savings from his initiatives exceed £1bn. Colin
was the Director and founder of the North West Centre
of Excellence. This has led the drive for efficiencies
through collaboration, joint procurement organisations
and better practice across 47 local authorities. Its
scope has included procurement, construction, shared
services, health and social care and the national lead
for local passenger transport. Third party spend by
the authorities amounts to £6.9bn a year. Colin
was the first Director of the North Western Universities
Purchasing Consortium. He created and was the Director
of the Benefits Agency Contracts Organisation and created
and was the first Director of the Research Councils’
Procurement Organisation. He was a founder member of
the Central Unit on Purchasing, which was the forerunner
of the Office of Government Commerce, and has run a
successful procurement consultancy business. An OGC
accredited consultant, he is a regular speaker at national
and international seminars and training events, lectures
on university degree courses and is a regular contributor
to professional journals. He is an advisor to a EU working
groups on Procurement and Innovation. |
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Formerly
Director of Procurement at the South West London Procurement
Alliance and Head of Purchasing for Kingston Hospital
NHS Trust, Stephen has implemented considerable development
in procurement management during his career of almost
40 years in the NHS, leading both hospital-based and
multi-authority teams. He has worked closely on ensuring
that equality and diversity and procurement goals are
aligned through effective procurement and commissioning,
including contributing to the DH Mosaic project. He
has a particular interest in the development of small
businesses within service provision to public authorities
and has worked on SME compliance with the public contract
regulations and ensuring value for money. Stephen has
lectured on both graduate and postgraduate courses in
public sector procurement and commercial relationships. |
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Derek
has worked in all areas of procurement since 1982. His
career has been mainly in the public sector and he has
been Procurement Officer at National University of Ireland,
Maynooth since 1998. In that role he has overseen the
implementation of a variety of centralized contracts,
implemented procurement procedures and provided proactive
support for the academic and administrative departments
of the University. He is a member of CIPS, the IIPMM
and the Forum on Public Procurement in Ireland. Prior
to 1998, he worked as an Officer of the Defence Forces
and at several United Nations missions both in the Middle
East and Central America. |
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Steve
has a long track record in the local government procurement
community, having left local government after 36 years
to become a procurement advisor. He is currently working
with IDeA, 4ps and SBV Ltd on a procurement training
initiative in the light of the National Procurement
Strategy, as well as a number of practical procurement
projects with other public sector clients. Since his
appointment in 1986 as head of Hertfordshire County
Council's procurement service, Steve has been instrumental
in raising the profile of procurement both within Hertfordshire
and on the national scene. He has a deep and continuing
commitment to public sector procurement and has been
instrumental in the development of standards and best
practice guidance that have been widely copied. He has
brought a level of leadership to Hertfordshire procurement
that is widely admired; amongst his other achievements
for Hertfordshire are the attainment of a Chartered
Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) award for
the standard of excellence in purchasing policies and
procedures, and being the first organisation of its
type to gain ISO14001 certification. The most obvious
of many examples of his commitment to public sector
procurement is his pivotal role in founding and developing
the Central Buying Consortium (CBC), which has grown
from a small grouping of six local authorities to its
current position as the largest local authority purchasing
consortium in the country, with a membership of 17 authorities
and a voice on procurement forums at the highest level.
He chaired the consortium's Management Committee between
1998 and 2003. Steve has also been the chair of the
Association of County Supplies Officers prior to its
joining with other agencies to form SOPO (Society of
Procurement Officers in Local Government). He had an
influencing role in the formation of SOPO, and for the
past five years has been a leading member of the National
Executive Committee, as well as a Director. Steve has
been active within CIPS, most recently as a member of
the Appointments Board but also as vice chair of a CIPS
technical committee. As well as his input to these organisations,
he has also been involved in a number of other procurement-related
projects including work on the Chartered Institute of
Public Finance and Accountancy's Commissioning Joint
Committee publications, several guidance booklets for
SOPO, and input into the development of the National
Procurement Strategy and the Procurement Performance
Indicators recently published by IDeA. |
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Florence
has over 25 years’ procurement experience gained
in the Health Service and Higher Education sectors.
She was Head of Purchasing at Queen's University Belfast
from January 1998 to May 2004, where she managed change,
implemented e-procurement solutions and developed
a proactive, supportive procurement function working
with the institution's decentralised part-time buyers.
Since then, Florence has worked as a purchasing consultant
specialising in performance and efficiency measurement;
competitive tendering guidance to both buyers and
suppliers; and the development and implementation
of procurement strategies, policies and procedures.
Her clients include the UK Higher Education sector;
Learning and Skills Council; Central Procurement Directorate
Northern Ireland; Dublin City Council; BiP Solutions
Ltd; and various universities and local authorities
in the UK and Ireland. She is a regular speaker at
conferences and seminars in the UK, Ireland and USA,
and is a Chartered Institute of Arbitrators accredited
mediator.
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David
was Head of Supply Chain at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing
Agency, and has spent some 25 years in purchasing and
contracts within central government. He has been responsible
for procurement policy and planning, including the contractual
aspects of Better Quality Services, supply chain management
and the professional development of staff within DVLA.
He is a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of
Purchasing and Supply and a member of IPSERA. |
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Julie
has worked in the public sector for 35 years and has
held senior procurement positions in the NHS, Higher
Education and Central Government. She also has experience
working in the private sector. She was part of the team
that set up the first use of off-shore data capture
by a government agency and has latterly been involved
with the implementation of an ERP system, e-procurement
solutions and the development and implementation of
various procurement training solutions. |
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Peter
has a long track record in procurement and local government.
In October 2003 he started his own consultancy and training
company (SBV Ltd) specialising in procurement and contracting
matters, primarily in the public sector. He is currently
the Chief Executive of the Society of Procurement Officers
in Local Government (SOPO). Prior to that he had spent
three years with the Improvement and Development Agency
(IDeA) where he worked as a member of the team developing
IDeA Marketplace. He is also a member of the National
e-Procurement Project board, a Director of the Ipswich
and Sudbury Enterprise Agency, primarily working on
their strategy group, and is a regular conference speaker
and workshop facilitator. His earlier posts include
Director of Strategic Management, Associate Director
of Resources and County Purchasing Officer for Suffolk
County Council. Whilst at Suffolk he led on the introduction
of Best Value and was responsible for a number of cross-functional
projects and departments. He has also worked for Shropshire
County Council as Deputy County Supplies Officer. Peter
spent 15 years in engineering procurement, primarily
with British Leyland - originally in the Automotive
division working on development projects for sports
cars such as the TR7, and then in the Special Projects
division, mainly for Coventry Climax. Peter is a Fellow
of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
and a member of IPSERA. He was one of the first graduates
from the Birmingham University MBA in Strategic Procurement
and also holds a degree in Applied Economics, but maintains
that serving an apprenticeship in a Coventry car factory
prepared him for most things in life! |
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Gareth
has worked in the procurement field since 1971. The
greater part of his career has been in the public sector,
initially with the National Coal Board and thereafter
22 years in healthcare purchasing. He commenced as a
Higher Clerical Officer in Bedford Healthcare and left
for the Department of Transport having risen to the
post of Director of Central Procurement for Health and
Personal Social Services in Northern Ireland. Throughout
his health sector career he was involved in strategic
contractual tasks and duties at regional and national
levels. In 1992 Gareth moved to the Department of Transport
and undertook major change programmes and detailed contractual
work, most notably in relation to privatisations and
outsourcing contracts in service provision. In 1997
the Department of Transport became a constituent part
of the Department of Environment, Transport and the
Regions and Gareth became its first Head of Procurement.
Since leaving the public service Gareth has undertaken
a major procurement review for the House of Commons.
In consultancy terms, his major clients have included
Inland Revenue, Nirex, Sapient plc, Governetz Ltd and
BiP Solutions. Gareth is a noted change manager with
highly respected motivational, training and teaching
skills. A strong academic and publishing background
has reinforced these activities |
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Paul
has over 30 years high level management experience in
both the private and public sectors. He was a county
council Chief Officer, responsible for all commercial
activity including tendering for work in competition
with the private sector, with over 2,500 staff in five
services and a £13m turnover. He was the founder,
spokesman and Chair of the Forum of DSO Managers with
a membership of over 30 UK local authorities. He has
worked in most countries in the Middle East including
Iraq and created the UK subsidiary for a large European
FM company and grew the business to £5m in four
years, making it the fastest growing worldwide subsidiary.
He has also acted as a “company doctor”
for SMEs, identifying weaknesses, creating long term
stability and focussing business development and has
been a regular speaker/chairman at seminars on public
procurement. Between 2001 and 2005 he was CEO - Business
Development for a Government contractor with sales of
over £80m, generating sales of £30m p.a.
including ground breaking contracts in new areas of
business including the company’s first overseas
contract in Israel. He is currently consulting
to the private sector and is also involved with manufacturing
and distributing cutting edge renewable energy products. |
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David
recently retired as Head of Commercial and Property
Services at Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, where he
was responsible for a force annual expenditure of £50
million and approximately the same again in Regional
and National Contracts. His department totalled seventy
people and included Purchasing, Contracts, Stores, Reprographics
and Estates. David was also a member of the Force Strategy
Group with a strategic remit beyond procurement issues
and was one of the key players in the development of
the ACPO Procurement Committee National Procurement
Strategy and the creation of the Association of Police
Procurement and Contracts Managers. He was a founder
member of the South West and Wales Police Purchasing
Consortium and its Chair until 2003. David was also
a founding member of the South West Procurement Federation
for local authorities and through that group was involved
in the setting up of the Regional Centre of Excellence.
He was also a member of the Devon Procurement Partnership.
Until recently David was the elected member for the
South West on the SOPO National Executive and through
this and other roles developed an extensive network
of contacts in procurement at all levels. Throughout
his purchasing career, which began as a textile buyer
for Gwent County Council in 1972, David has dealt with
a comprehensive range of commodities and services understanding
the strengths and weakness of specific markets and how
major buying power can affect their viability. |
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Trevor
has spent over 40 years in the building industry and
is a chartered quantity surveyor. He has extensive procurement
experience gained with both the public sector and commercial
organisations. He was a Project Sponsor/Project Manager
in Defra and led the first multi-occupied PFI office
accommodation project and the team remediating Britain’s
only WWII mustard gas factory. During his time at PSA
he led a team preparing and processing financial requests
and approvals to NATO international staff in Brussels.
Latterly he was Head of Contract Management in the Estates
Division of Defra with responsibility for preparation
and agreement of Service Level Agreements together with
contract negotiations. He has also been an OGC Gateway
Reviewer and was a member of a Cross Government Training
Group for estate management. Trevor is a member of the
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. |
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Head
of Procurement and Commercial Development, Cardiff and
Vale NHS Trust, University Hospital of Wales. Larry
was appointed Chairman of the Healthcare Supplies Association
for a two and a half year period commencing 1 April
2002. He is also Head of Procurement and Commercial
Development for Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust (third largest
in the UK), having spent nearly 42 years in the NHS.
His involvement in Purchasing and Supply commenced in
1961, as a Clerical Officer within United Cardiff Hospitals.
He then held various appointments before becoming Supplies
Officer with South Glamorgan Health Authority in 1975.
Form 1992 to 1995 Larry was Procurement Director for
Welsh Health Common Services Authority, during which
time he was responsible for all NHS purchasing in Mid,
South and East Wales. In 1995 Larry was appointed Head
of Procurement and Commercial Development for University
Hospital of Wales Trust and latterly Cardiff and Vale
NHS Trust. In addition Larry also chairs the national
e-business pathfinder group for Wales (covering all
108 public organisations on Wales) and the South East
Wales regional forum (this covers 58 organisations in
South East Wales). He also chairs the public sector
group for CIPS covering OGC, MoD, health, local authorities
and higher education. |
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Francis
has specialised in eProcurement, Project Management
and Change Management for both the Private and Public
Sectors since 1993, including roles in a high profile
UK design and development consultancy and the UK Criminal
Justice system.As Principal Associate for his business
Armine Associates, he has expanded the portfolio to
include further key strands of business consultancy
and training. Since 2003 he has been an independent
seminar speaker and PASS consultant for BiP Solutions
Ltd, delivering seminars for them around the UK to both
Public and Private Sector audiences and helping businesses
improve their processes.He is also a consultant lecturer
at Cambridge Regional College Business Centre for the
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)
examination modules and is a member of both the Chartered
Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) and the Chartered
Management Institute (MCMI) and has been published in
the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Electronic
Design. |
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Eddie
is BiP Solutions' Senior Procurement Consultant. Working
alongside the Client Services team, he frequently assists
public sector organisations with clarification and interpretation
of EU Directives and a wide variety of legislative issues.
Eddie is lead consultant on BiP's PASS Mark Health Check,
an evaluation technique that helps identify how organisations
in both the public and private sectors can develop more
effective processes in respect of all aspects of public
sector contracting. A member of the International Purchasing
and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA),
Eddie is also the senior adviser on BiP's unique Tender
Support Helpline team, which provides advice on contracting
matters to hundreds of clients. For the last 13 years
Eddie has lectured regularly on procurement policy and
processes at conferences and events, both on behalf
of BiP and for a variety of other organisations, including
the Society of Procurement Officers in Local Government
(SOPO) and the Institute of Directors. He also provides
in-house training on the tendering process – law
and practice – to personnel in both the public
and private sectors, including several multinational
organisations. |
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John
Scowen, London Borough of Havering, Corporate Procurement
Manager
John has been in the field of purchasing for
35 years, starting off in the Health Service where he
worked his way from Buyer to Assistant District Supplies
Manager. He has been part of local government purchasing
since 1989 and has held the post of Corporate Procurement
Manager for the London Borough of Havering since 1990.
He was Chairman of the London Contracts and Supplies
Group, Chairman of SOPO (Society of Procurement Officers
in Local Government) 2002-2004. One of his objectives
is to co-ordinate the purchasing of commodities throughout
London and he has worked hard to achieve this. The London
Contracts and Supplies Group is a forum for such activities
and has had significant influence on the way purchasing
has developed within London. The LCSG is now developing
strong links with the Centres of Excellence to meet
the demands of Efficient Procurement throughout the
public sector. |
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John
had a long, varied and successful career in the NHS.
Having held a number of senior posts in procurement
including spells as Associate Regional Commercial Manager
in Wessex Regional Health Authority, National Purchasing
Executive at the NHS Procurement Directorate and International
Procurement Consultant at NHS Overseas Enterprises he
joined NHS Estates in 2001 as Assistant NHS Housing
Coordinator. In this post he worked closely with
the, then, Minister of Health, John Hutton, and Senior
Civil Servants at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
to ensure the delivery of accessible, appropriate and
affordable housing for key-workers as part of the NHS
Plan. He was also responsible for formulating policy
regarding the transfer of NHS housing stock to housing
providers and, as such, worked on the documentation
to support this. In May 2004 he moved to South West
London Strategic Health Authority to cover the health
economies in both South West London and Surrey and Sussex
Health Authorities. As part of this work he acted as
Project Manager for St George’s Healthcare NHS
Trust in the negotiation of the sale and redevelopment
of their accommodation to a housing association, the
sale of part of the site for shared ownership housing
with preferential access for Trust staff and the sale
of the final part of the site for private development.
The resulting deal, the largest of its type in the UK,
provided 557 units of high quality keyworker housing
for the Trust, 78 shared ownership units and 140 units
for private sale and provided the Trust with a gross
capital receipt in excess of £15 million. He also
worked on a number of similar projects including Surrey
and Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton and Sussex
University Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal West Sussex NHS
Trust and Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust
and is currently working on a large scheme at Frimley
Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. |
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Mark
spent over 27 years working in the public sector and
held a number of senior procurement roles, including
Head of Procurement at the Contributions Agency, Deputy
Head of Procurement at Inland Revenue and Director of
Collaborative Opportunities at the Office of Government
Commerce. Much of this experience has been at the leading
edge of the development of strategic procurement thinking
in government, including the development of approaches
to collaborative working whilst delivering stretching
vfm targets. Other achievements include negotiating
a number of pan government IT software deals, involvement
in outsourcing and insourcing, and publication of a
number of significant reports including on Open Source
Software. |
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