{"id":67722,"date":"2016-02-18T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T10:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c913cdbcf76fbf6a329f5d09875c6392"},"modified":"2016-02-18T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T10:09:19","slug":"news-story-technology-products-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67722","title":{"rendered":"News story: Technology Products update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We held a series of supplier engagement events recently, in partnership with techUK, to look at how we should structure the new Technology Products agreement to meet the needs of both buyers and suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>83 different supplier organisations came along including resellers, software vendors and hardware manufacturers, many of which are small businesses. Feedback was positive:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cfun and informative\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cgreat innovation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We took a collaborative approach to the workshops as we\u2019re keen to work with suppliers to understand what they like and don\u2019t like about the existing agreement and develop innovative ideas for the new agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The new Technology Products agreement needs to be easy to use and accessible for both buyers and potential suppliers. With this in mind, the workshops focused on the structure of the agreement, the evaluation process,  terms and conditions and the use of catalogues to ensure we make it as easy as possible for small businesses to get involved. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re grateful to everyone who came along to share their ideas and look forward to suppliers\u2019 continued participation in helping us shape the agreement. <\/p>\n<p>We have now published the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:52739-2016:TEXT:EN:HTML&amp;src=0\">Prior Information Notice<\/a> for this procurement and will be sharing the outputs from these sessions on our website shortly, so if you were unable to attend a session it isn\u2019t too late to get involved. <\/p>\n<p>If you would like to join future sessions please email <a href=\"mailto:TPSfuture@crowncommercial.gov.uk\">TPSfuture@crowncommercial.gov.uk<\/a> or <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/node\/6377\">visit our dedicated web page to find out more<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re also engaging with buyers to understand their requirements and are holding 2 workshops on 23 February. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/technology-products-buyer-engagement-events\">Find out more and register<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met with over 80 suppliers recently to discuss our ideas for the new Technology Products agreement and have now published the Prior Information Notice.<\/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\/67722"}],"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=67722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}