Government Transformation: Responsive procurement
There is a common challenge that most governments have in creating greater connections between themselves and the citizens they serve. Their aim is to create services that are more useful, usable, desirable, efficient, and effective. To accomplish this governments require fundamental changes in adopting approaches that create more speed to market and innovation of service.
An issue that impacts most government agencies is their lack of speed and innovation in the procurement process. Mired in antiquated processes and procedures — most government transformations suffer from slow, outdated, and ineffective procurement.
5 ways to change government procurement
- Engage with providers to prototype and explore design options
- Procure with non-traditional constraints
- Price as high up the value chain as is practical
- Favor solutions based on open standards or technology that has become a standard for government
- Create panel partnerships for important common capabilities, to reduce overheads for procurement
Until government procurement teams can keep pace with the speed of innovation and transformation — governments will continually fail to meet citizen needs and expectations.
