May Oxford POGO Club Call

Agenda

16:00-16:05        Welcome 

Professor Anne Davies, University of Oxford

16:05-16:10        Context setting

Abby Semple, Procurement Analysis 

16:10-16:40        Presentation and discussion: Data and Transparency in Various Aspects of Public Procurement

• Peter Smith, Author, former senior adviser to the UK National Audit Office and President of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
• Dan Ebanks, Co-founder & CEO, Social Value Exchange
• Genevieve Maitland-Hudson, Director of Learning and Influence Social Investment Business
• Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network

Prompt for presentation and discussion:

• As we try to improve social outcomes or start to “build back better,” are we making good use of data on public procurement, spending, or funding in public and social services?
• What are these data?
• What does “good use” look like? What are the opportunities and challenges over the next five years?

16:40-17:00        Q&A/ Open group discussion

17:00                     Meeting close

Background resources

• Oxford POGO Club (2021), Response to Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement
• Peter Smith. Radical Transparency: The future of public procurement
• Procurement with Purpose
• Peter Smith. 2020. Bad Buying, order book here
• Spend Network. 2021. Procurement Inequality: Understanding the gender pay gap in government contracting

Please contact Ruairi Macdonald ruairi.macdonald@bsg.ox.ac.uk or Leigh Crowley leigh.crowley@bsg.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions.