{"id":72374,"date":"2016-07-15T08:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T08:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=75798fb385fb5718d6886aca391c8994"},"modified":"2016-07-15T08:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T08:47:01","slug":"news-story-designing-government-contracts-for-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72374","title":{"rendered":"News story: Designing government contracts for the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Traditionally, contracts are written in complex language and include lots of repetition. We feel that shortening and simplifying the documents will encourage a more diverse range of suppliers applying to supply to government. It will also ensure we can provide buyers with the best possible commercial deals for common goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve created a multidisciplinary team and will be working together to combine our areas of expertise to create accurate and compliant model contracts written in simpler language.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more in this <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalmarketplace.blog.gov.uk\/2016\/07\/14\/working-together-to-design-government-contracts-for-the-digital-age\/\">blog post about how we are working together to design government contracts for the digital age<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re working with the Government Digital Service and Government Legal Department to change the way our contract documents are written and presented.<\/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\/72374"}],"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=72374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}