{"id":78949,"date":"2017-02-15T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=64b55cabeffd577ef15388df7fb4429b"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:44:45","slug":"news-story-making-sure-procurement-practice-is-best-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78949","title":{"rendered":"News story: Making sure procurement practice is best practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Crown Commercial Service Mystery Shopper team is now actively following up to check how contracting authorities have implemented the recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>This means the investigation doesn\u2019t end when bodies say they will make changes &#8211; the Mystery Shopper team is following up to make sure that changes were made that support public procurement in being open to all businesses, including SMEs.<\/p>\n<p>Suppliers already know they can contact the Crown Commercial Service\u2019s Mystery Shopper team to raise issues about a procurement, and the team then works with the supplier and the authority to broker a result.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, recommendations are agreed with the bodies to make changes to future procurements, and details of these cases are then published.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the results of the follow-up investigations will be published every month alongside the usual Mystery Shopper publication.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about CCS\u2019s Mystery Shopper service, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/mystery-shopper-results\">the Mystery Shopper webpages<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mystery Shopper service is evolving to ensure concerns raised by suppliers about public sector procurements are properly resolved.<\/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\/78949"}],"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=78949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}