Connecting Buyers and Suppliers Across the UK’s Public Sector
Procurex National 2024 delivers a wealth of CPD Certified skills development, networking and collaboration opportunities for public sector buyers and private sector organisations alike.
The interactive product showcase exhibition provides organisations that are actively operating within official frameworks agreements or exploring ways’ to further develop opportunities across the £300bn a year UK public procurement marketplace with a chance to showcase their products and services to leading buyers.
Skills Development Zones
Our Skills Development Zones at Procurex National 2024 will focus on the following themes:
Social Value and Net Zero
The Social Value and Net Zero Zone will host several sessions dedicated to understanding the UK’s public sector procurement sustainability requirements and decarbonisation targets.
Future of Procurement
The public procurement landscape is evolving for both buyers and suppliers. This new landscape will see it take on a more strategic role to help deliver social value, play a key role in achieving net zero targets through sustainability, enhance communities and ultimately deliver better value in public procurement.
Procurement Skills
Procurement professionals are dealing with multiple challenges, requiring them to develop new commercial and personal skills and to think about their role in a different way: as influencers, networkers, collaborators as well as negotiators and decision makers. This zone will focus on upskilling public sector buyers.
Market Engagement
Understanding and engaging the market is key for suppliers looking to sell to the public sector. The Market Engagement Zone will deliver a series of sessions aimed specifically at suppliers, offering support in building your business across the UK’s public sector.
Social Housing Procurement
The Social Housing Procurement Zone at Procurex National will play host to a range of training and skills sessions advising buyers and suppliers on the best procurement processes and frameworks to follow, and how to deliver social value and other benefits whilst keeping to regulations and budgets.
Procurement Excellence
The Procurement Excellence Zone at Procurex National will play host a series of inspiring sessions from past winners and highly commended entries, detailing how they delivered their most successful projects, their main learnings from those projects, and how others can replicate their success.
Partners
Crown Commercial Service
Partner

CCS plays an important role helping the UK public sector save money when buying common goods and services. We are the biggest public procurement organisation in the UK. We use our commercial expertise to help buyers in central government and across the public and third sectors to purchase everything from locum doctors and laptops to police cars and electricity. The collective purchasing power of our customers, plus our procurement knowledge, means we can get the best commercial deals in the interests of taxpayers.
Cabinet Office
Partner

The Transforming Public Procurement programme aims to improve the way public procurement is regulated in order to: - Create a simpler and more flexible, commercial system that better meets our country’s needs while remaining compliant with our international obligations - Open up public procurement to new entrants such as small businesses and social enterprises so that they can compete for and win more public contracts - Embed transparency throughout the commercial lifecycle so that the spending of taxpayers’ money can be properly scrutinised.
North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO)
Partner

Since 1976, NEPO has worked in partnership with North East local authorities on the strategic procurement of high value goods and services in order to deliver savings, maximise efficiencies and promote best practice. Collaboration is at the heart of everything that NEPO does. Our procurement solutions are the result of extensive consultation with the public sector, suppliers and end-users, so that we deliver positive outcomes for the communities we serve.
Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)

CIPS, the global membership organisation for procurement and supply. With 60,000 members spanning 156 countries and offices across the world, we’re building a global network to power our profession. We lead in education and training. We provide information and tools. And we help build capability within organisations. Through all our work, we are the voice and standard.
Ministry of Defence
Partner

The MOD is implementing Category Management as an approach to Defence Acquisition. A multi-disciplinary team from across the enterprise are collectively exploiting the opportunities afforded to us through a Category Management approach – identifying Categories locally and scaling up as appropriate. We embrace and embody the ‘One Defence’ mindset, helping our people and teams to drive better capability for the front line, improve working practices and increase value for money. We’re always keen to hear from colleagues and industry partners on your aspirations and experiences with Category Management, so if you have any feedback or questions, please visit our stand.
London Procurement Partnership
Partner

NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP) is one of four national procurement hubs serving the health community in London and beyond. Our members extend across the acute, community and mental health sectors, as well as primary care and clinical commissioning.
UK Universities Purchasing Consortia
Partner

UKUPC is a partnership between eight UK purchasing consortia who created a formal entity to support collaborative procurement within Higher and Further Education. All eight consortia work together to conduct their procurement activities with the goal of achieving financial and operational efficiencies, as well as sharing knowledge and best practice, supporting each other and their wider procurement community. The UKUPC mission is to leverage the benefits of collaborative procurement, to work across the UK HE Consortia community to enhance procurement within HE and across their other members, to help deliver savings and efficiencies, and to maximise member benefits, while embedding responsible and ethical procurement, sustainable supply chain management and social value. By harnessing the power of group purchasing, they are able to save time and money whilst also increasing their teams’ skills and capabilities which in turn benefits their members. By integrating the efforts of their expert teams, they can provide savings, efficiencies and a better service for all of the UKUPC community.
WRAP
Partner

WRAP is one of the globe's leading sustainability charities. Based in the UK, we work with businesses, governments, citizens, and charities to make the planet a healthier, safer place. In Wales, our work includes supporting public bodies to embed sustainable procurement to achieve positive environmental, economic, and social outcomes, and to maximise contributions to Wales’ Well-being Goals.
Blue Light Commercial
Partner

Commercial expertise is a critical element within emergency services as third party suppliers play an increasingly important role in supporting front-line services. BlueLight Commercial is designed to support delivery of the Policing Vision 2025, encourage transformation of policing and engender cultural change. It will raise the commercial capability within blue light services whilst building capacity and credibility of the commercial profession. It focuses on maximising benefits to front line operational performance. BlueLight Commercial will be responsible for the interface with other external bodies including the Home Office, the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) and Crown Commercial Services (CCS), as well as other policing organisations. It will provide support, guidance and recommended approaches across key commercial areas in order to support local commercial teams. Local commercial teams will be able to use BlueLight Commercial outputs and support to help meet the needs of their force. Suppliers will usually be managed locally and forces will be supported to deal effectively with strategic suppliers in order to help tackle problems and drive improvement.
PASS Procurement
Partner

PASS provides expert public procurement training and support for both public and private sector organisations. Whether your goal is to maximise efficiencies or increase your organisation’s chances of tendering success, PASS will ensure you are equipped with the knowledge you need. Discover how you can Learn, Develop and Accomplish with PASS.
Tracker
Partner

Tracker is the only end-to-end business development solution with the unique intelligence you need to find, bid for and win more business. With access to Europe’s largest database of opportunities and competitive insights – you can engage earlier to sell more effectively and win more business. And Tracker’s just got even better – now you can also upload opportunity documents and manage your bid responses all in the one place. Focus on winning business – not looking for it.
Delta
Partner

Delta eSourcing enables efficient, effective and compliant procurement. Utilised by thousands of public sector buyers every day, its Buyer Portal, Tender Manager, Supplier Manager, Contract Manager and eAuctions services can be used independently or else combined to form a comprehensive and effective end-to-end procurement solution. In challenging times, Delta eSourcing delivers transparency, compliance and value for money.
Supply2Gov
Partner

At Supply2Gov, we have one goal – to make business growth simpler for sole traders, micro and small businesses. Powered by the UK and Republic of Ireland’s largest database of public sector contract notices and awards, combined with our daily email alerts sent straight to your inbox, we’ve made it as easy as possible for you to find relevant opportunities as soon as they become available – giving you more time to focus on putting your bids together and growing your business. You can register for a free local area of your choice or take advantage of our flexible monthly payment options – giving you a no risk, scalable, cost effective contract alerts service option.
Cadence Marketing
Partner

At Cadence Marketing, we understand the importance of data in the public sector and have built a comprehensive database of over 200,000 contacts across 31,600 organisations, including Central Government, Local Government, NHS, Education, MOD, and Emergency Services. We love helping businesses connect with public sector buyers through targeted marketing solutions. Whether you’re looking to boost your email campaigns, do some market research, host a webinar, or create some killer content, we’ve got you covered. Reach the right people, stay up-to-date, make informed decisions and improve your win rate.
Featuring

The GO Awards are the UK’s leading public procurement excellence awards, celebrating the very best procurement achievements from across UK’s public, private and third sector organisations.
Entries open November 2024 and we’re looking to hear from buyers and suppliers operating in the public procurement marketplace from across the UK. Celebrate excellence in public procurement by entering the UK National GO Awards, and join us on the evening of 16 May at the Titanic Hotel Liverpool when we crown our winners.
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