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Agenda

16:00-16:05    Welcome

Chair Anne Davies, University of Oxford

A reminder of the fast-approaching 30 April deadline for GO Lab’s Social Outcomes Conference call for papers and a special announcement: Professor Joseph Stiglitz will deliver the keynote address at the Social Outcomes Conference.

16:05-16:45    Presentation and response panel: system-level learning in a procurement system

Prompt for Presentation and Discussion: We expect a lot from our public procurement system. How does one know if the public procurement system is working at a regional level or national level? Who gets to know and what do they do with that knowledge?

16:05-16:10    Context setting

Ruairi Macdonald, GO Lab Researcher: issues of ‘oversight’, shared accountability, transparency, and learning in response to the UK Government’s Green Paper, ‘Transforming Public Procurement’.

16:10-16:25    Presentation

Nicolás Penagos, Head of the MAPS Secretariat, OECD

16:25-16:45    Panel comments / discussion

Abby Semple, Procurement Analysis

Mark Roddan, Head of Procurement; North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils

Christopher Yukins, Professor in Government Procurement Law, George Washington University Law School

Nicolás Penagos, Head of the MAPS Secretariat, OECD

16:45-17:55    Q&A / Open group discussion.

17:00                 Meeting closed by Chair

 Background Resources:

Please contact Ruairi Macdonald ruairi.macdonald@bsg.ox.ac.uk or Leigh Crowley leigh.crowley@bsg.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions. We are open to suggestions for topics for future sessions.