Commissioning and procurement
Governments are big customers of goods and services. Government in the UK purchases £125 billion worth of goods and services. Alongside initiation, escalation and embedding, public procurement plays a role in relation to consolidation by purchasing services at scale.
Commissioning innovative services
Commissioning has become increasingly important in the public sector, with the growth of contracting out services. Although often driven by costs, it has also been used...
Read moreOutcomes based commissioning
Outcomes based commissioning is where a commissioning body agrees to fund a provider on the basis that they will achieve particular agreed outcomes (rather than deliver...
Read moreDeveloping new markets
Government is well positioned to serve as an ‘early user’ of new goods and services, demonstrating their value to the wider market. In this way, the...
Read moreContestability
Contestability and multiple providers to promote diversity of innovation. Here the aim is to design market structures in public services which create incentives for innovation. It...
Read morePractice based commissioning
Practice based commissioning devolves commissioning powers to frontline health care practitioners. It is based on the idea that these professionals are best placed to make decisions...
Read morePayment by results
Payment by results in the NHS involves paying providers a fixed price (a tariff) for each particular case treated. The national tariff is based on national...
Read moreExploratory service contracts
Exploratory service contracts to ensure overt funding of innovation discovery, such as the blue skies research programmes in the UK, South Africa and New Zealand....
Read moreE-procurement
E-procurement involves undertaking procurement processes online. This enables commissioners to reach a wider range of potential providers and can also lead to economies in processing tenders....
Read moreE-auctions
E-auctions. Virtual auctions can help to achieve the greatest value for money for a given tender. The Commissioning agency prepares a clear specification and trains suppliers...
Read moreFramework contracts
Framework contracts are a means by which potential providers are ‘checked over once’ by an organisation, and if they meet required standards they are then regarded...
Read moreCommitments from commissioners
The commitment of a public body with the ability to purchase, commission or fund an innovation, creates the conditions for an innovation to embed and grow....
Read moreJoint commissioning
Joint commissioning is where two or more commissioning agents act together to co-ordinate their commissioning, taking joint responsibility for particular actions and outcomes. Joint commissioning is...
Read moreShare in savings contracts
Share in savings contracts as pioneered by the US Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996. The act included provisions for two pilot programmes (including one...
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