{"id":66985,"date":"2016-01-28T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9e9148a70f8a3e047ba9d04f6cd6ca68"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:10:00","slug":"news-story-technology-products-buyer-engagement-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66985","title":{"rendered":"News story: Technology Products: buyer engagement events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The events are aimed at both existing and potential new public sector buyers and will provide a chance to contribute your thoughts on how the next agreement can best meet your technology requirements. <\/p>\n<p>There will be 2 sessions to choose from on 23 February &#8211; 10am and 1pm &#8211; and both sessions will take place at the Hewlett Packard office in London. Each session will last 2 hours and cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>contracting structures &#8211; lotting<\/li>\n<li>catalogue &#8211; functionality<\/li>\n<li>ordering &#8211; further competition\/ direct award<\/li>\n<li>evaluation &#8211; criteria and methods to assess supplier capability<\/li>\n<li>lessons learned &#8211; terms and conditions, capped mark ups, bid response rates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to join us on 23 February please email<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:TPSfuture@crowncommercial.gov.uk\">TPSfuture@crowncommercial.gov.uk<\/a> stating which time you would like to attend.  <\/p>\n<p>Spaces are limited to 1 person per organisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re holding workshops, in partnership with techUK, to get input from buyers 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\/66985"}],"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=66985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}