Scottish Government - Procurement and Property

Our Central Government Procurement Shared Services (CGPSS) team has now been established for 10 years! 🙌    Over the past decade the team has grown, evolved, and continuously strived to exceed expectations. CGPSS has improved capability across our partners by delivering procurement training to more than 700 people and attained improved Procurement & Commercial Improvement Programme (PCIP) scores for our partners from previous years.    Find out more about the teams success: https://lnkd.in/eptz4huy   CIPS - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply #PowerofProcurement

We’re delighted to share the launch of a video from across the 4 nations. It highlights how public procurement can give you a varied and rewarding career, while also making an impact for the people we serve. Representing the Scottish Government in the video is Nikki Archer, our Head of Profession for Procurement, alongside colleagues from the procurement and commercial communities of Northern Ireland, Wales and the United Kingdom. In Scotland we’re proud to drive sustainable procurement outcomes that boost a fair and green economic recovery in addition to supplying efficient and effective public services. 🎥 https://lnkd.in/eqeKzzD7 Government Commercial Function #PowerofProcurement #CivilServiceCareers

📣 Update 📣 Public Contracts Scotland is now back up and running! We appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve this issue. https://lnkd.in/d24BKta

The Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) website is currently unavailable. We’re actively working to establish the cause and resolve the issue. We’ll provide further updates as soon as we have more information.

Our National Collaborative Procurement Division's quarterly bulletin has been published. The bulletin provides the latest information on our Category A, collaborative frameworks and shares our ambitions for the enhancement of services. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eT3srPVM #CollaborativeFramework #ScottishProcurement #Contracts

🎥 We joined the Public Procurement Group to take a look back over some of the key achievements for Public Procurement in Scotland in 2024. Find out what they had to say: https://lnkd.in/gceVtPST Scotland Excel NHS National Services Scotland APUC

📝We have published a new Scottish Procurement Policy Note providing notice of changes to Scottish procurement legislation and minor system updates to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gspqN2Zv #SPPN #PCS #ScottishProcurement

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Fair Work First in Procurement eLearning, designed to help organisations across Scotland embrace Fair Work First — the Scottish Government’s policy aimed at promoting high-quality, fair work and workforce diversity. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gGRAhk5C

Implementing procurement policies into your bids can be daunting, but help is at hand for Scottish SMEs. Join a free "Responding to Tender Policy Requirements" webinar, on 10 December at 10:30am, to learn all you need to know about the most common policy requirements: https://bit.ly/3CtevIA #10DR #Policy #HelpingYouBidBetter #Procurement #SMEs #PublicSector

Here's what you need to know about the 2025/26 Scottish Budget. The budget focuses on: 🔵eradicating child poverty    🔵growing the economy    🔵tackling the climate emergency    🔵ensuring high quality and sustainable public services Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gUxQ74KC Eradicating child poverty is our top priority. As part of our commitment, we: 🔵will invest almost £800 million more in social security benefits than last year's Budget 🔵commit to mitigating the UK Government’s two child benefit cap from 2026 We are committed to improving our public services. We will invest a record £21 billion to reduce our NHS waiting times and treat more patients at home or locally. We will introduce a new universal Winter Fuel Payment which is not available elsewhere in the UK. Boosting fair, green economic growth is central to our budget. We are investing an extra £200 million for the Scottish National Investment Bank to create jobs and support innovation. We are delivering £321 million for enterprise agencies to help businesses start and scale. This Budget is investing in measures to tackle the climate emergency in a way that maximises economic opportunities.  We will nearly treble investment in offshore wind to £150 million.