Keep ahead of procurement policy change

For anyone doing work in the public sector - for local or central government - keeping abreast with changes in procurement policy is vital.

The Gershon Efficiency Review recommended that government could be more efficient at procuring construction and FM, and the responses to those demands are currently being developed by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).

Anyone who would like to know what is going on, and how the OGC is recommending that local and central government become more efficient at procuring construction and FM, should attend the Contract Journal conference Public Procurement: Meeting the Challenge.

Speakers at the event, to be held in central London on 19 October, include David McMeehan, director of the construction and FM efficiency division at the OGC. He will talk though the procurement changes being led by OGC, and look at how contractors can best meet these changes.

Other speakers include Peter Bishop, director of the Local Government Task Force, and Martin Davis, chairman of the Strategic Forum Integration Steering Group, who will talk about trialling radically different project insurance in the industry.

For more details, and to book your place, visit www.cjconferences.com/procurement2006, or email vicky.weyman@rbi.co.uk.

[Contract Journal, 13 September 2006, p 4]