Events
Vincent Campbell, National Procurement Service: New Developments in Public Procurement
Date: 27/04/2012
On 27th April, Vincent Campbell (Director of the National Procurement Service and senior responsible owner for public sector procurement reform in Ireland) addressed 15 members on the new developments in public procurement being overseen by his service.
Key Discussion Points
After giving the background on the setting up of the National Procurement Service Vincent filled members in on its scope, focus, operation, size, and location. The Service establishes central or sectoral contracts and establishes framework agreements, giving rise to savings from economies of scale/administrative savings. Since 2009 the NPS has overseen savings in the order of ¤176 million. The service would like to be able to include ACESA but where ineligibility is a problem, they will provide documentation to establish framework competitions covering members’ needs. It might be possible also to include ACESA in future competitions.
By way of follow-up, Vincent Campbell undertook to write to members setting out the broad message, highlighting the guidelines; website; tenders in play and opportunity to work with NPS staff in developing other tenders, which may be required.