{"id":66716,"date":"2016-01-22T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e85927f5b1f982f942604ae765961670"},"modified":"2016-01-22T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:55:39","slug":"news-story-technology-products-supplier-engagement-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66716","title":{"rendered":"News story: Technology Products: supplier engagement events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The series of workshops, in partnership with techUK, is designed to give technology suppliers the opportunity to input into the structure of a replacement for the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/contracts\/rm1054\">Technology Products agreement (RM1054)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The procurement activity is scheduled to begin in May 2016 and 4 pre-procurement engagement workshops will take place in London and Manchester during February.<\/p>\n<p>The events are aimed at resellers and manufacturers\/distributors and will give suppliers the chance to share their thoughts on what the next agreement should look like. Each session will last 2 hours and cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contracting structures &#8211; lotting, mode of operation<\/li>\n<li>Catalogue &#8211; functionality for commodity requirements<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation &#8211; criteria and methods to assess capability<\/li>\n<li>Lessons learned &#8211; terms and conditions, management information, cost mark ups etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in taking part please register for your preferred date using the links below. Spaces are limited so we ask each company to send only 1 representative &#8211; most usefully a senior member of your bid team.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techuk.org\/events\/seminar\/item\/6886-ccs-technology-products-services-workshop-resellers\">Resellers: Wednesday 3 February, 10am-12 noon, techUK, London<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techuk.org\/events\/seminar\/item\/6890-ccs-technology-products-services-workshop-manufacturers-distributors\">Manufacturers and distributors: Wednesday 3 February, 1.30pm-4pm, techUK, London<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techuk.org\/events\/seminar\/item\/6887-ccs-technology-products-services-workshop-resellers\">Resellers: Thursday 4 February, 10am-12 noon, techUK, London<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techuk.org\/events\/seminar\/item\/6891-ccs-technology-products-services-workshop-resellers\">Resellers: Tuesday 9 February, 10am-12 noon, Outsourcery, Manchester<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re holding workshops, in partnership with techUK, to get input from suppliers on a replacement for the Technology Products agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}