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Why commissioning needs radical procurement
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Writing for Medium, the Public Service Transformation Academy’s COO, Paul Conneely, outlines ten examples of ‘radical procurement’ that indicate a growing trend in entrepreneurial approaches to accessing and harnessing innovation in the public sector. These examples focus on:
- Spinning-out services and companies
- Bringing suppliers together
- Generating social value
- Multiplying investment
- Focusing spend locally
- Cultivating future innovation
- Working with the wider system
- Commissioning collaboratively
- Flexing payment around population risks and outcomes
- Keeping competition alive through ‘contestability’