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31 Oct Commercial. From MEAT to MAT: Balancing cost control with quality in public procurement. Public sector procurement has undergone a subtle yet significant change with the transition from Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) to Most Advantageous Tender (MAT). Proxima takes a look at what this means for procurement professionals.
A new era for government contracts - civilserviceworld.com
8 hours ago · Get ready for February 2025. The implementation of the Procurement Act 2023, originally due to come into force in October 2024, is now expected on 24 February 2025. Maguire explained the delay was needed to allow the new government to review and align the reforms with their priorities. Specifically, it allows ministers to redraft the National ...
Latest civil service & public affairs moves – November 11
5 hours ago · Ministry of Justice – Susannah Hancock to lead an independent review of the placement of girls in the children and young people’s secure estate. C hildren and Family Court Advisory Support Service – Catherine Doran and Mandy Jones re-appointed as members for one year until 13 May 2026; Rohan Sivanandan’s tenure extended from 24 December ...
SR25: What did Reeves' first Budget tell us about next year’s …
4 hours ago · While the Budget did not set out detailed departmental spending plans beyond 2025-26, it did set a spending envelope for the rest of the parliament. Departments will get an average real-terms increase in their day-to-day spending power of 4.8% in 2024-25 and 3.1% in 2025-26, but this drops down to 1.3% in the following three years.
Civil servants to get 5% pay rise - Civil Service World
By Tevye Markson. 29 Jul 2024. Most civil servants are set to get a pay rise of around 5% this year, the Cabinet Office has said. The department published the 2024-25 pay remit guidance, which is for civil servants below the senior civil servants, this afternoon. The guidance confirms that departments will be able to offer an average pay award ...
'Very worrying': Interest in the Civil Service Fast Stream plummets
Applications to the Civil Service Fast Stream have fallen dramatically for the second year in a row, with the 2023 scheme receiving less than half the number of applicants as in 2021. Interest in the graduation scheme has now dropped three years in a row, having reached a high of 64,697 applicants in 2020. A small drop in 2021 – to 59,603 ...
Why civil servants are leaving and other concerning scores: What …
Mar 31, 2023 · The 2022 Civil Service People Survey results have finally been published. Anger over pay is the standout reaction in the poll: salary satisfaction has dropped by more than 10 percentage points to the lowest level in the People Survey's 14-year existence.
Read the November 2022 issue of Civil Service World
Nov 21, 2022 · This month's issue shines a light on science and innovation in the civil service – plus, the civil servants behind Operation Bridges and an exclusive interview with government's chief property officer. In CSW 's science and innovation-focused November 2022 issue, Defence and Security Accelerator Anita Friend tells us how working on crisis ...
Read the summer 2023 issue of Civil Service World
Jun 26, 2023 · In the latest issue of Civil Service World, we asked a cross-section of officials to review the large language model as part of our exploration into what the next frontiers of AI might mean for government. We also meet inspiring civil servants from across government – from leaders like Sarah Munby (perm sec of the new Department for Science ...
Civil service’s biggest union grows as pay battle intensifies
Apr 11, 2023 · The civil service’s largest trade union, PCS, has said its membership numbers grew by 4.9% in 2022, and “accelerated” as it balloted members on the current wave of strikes over pay and pensions towards the end of the year. In its just-published Finance Report 2023, which includes the union’s accounts for the year, PCS said membership ...