The CEPAG Vision

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The CEPAG Vision

• A Commercial Directors Perspective

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What is CEPAG?

• Chief Executives Procurement Advisory Group

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CEPAG Membership

• OGC and OGCbs
• Dept for Transport
• Procurement Excellence in the Police Service
• NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency
• Dept for Education Skills
• HM Revenue Customs
• Dept of Health
• HM Treasury

• Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation
• Ministry of Defence
• Home Office
• Dept for Work Pensions
• Gateshead MBC
• National Procurement Programme
• Regional Centres of Excellence

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Why do we need a vision?

• Statement of strategic intent
• Framework within which public sector procurement
  can navigate
• Crystallises pan government collaboration

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Vision statement the headlines

• Delivery of benefit
• Coherence and collaboration
• Reinforce processes
• Tools and infrastructure to support
• Board level engagement
• Skills

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Outcome

• Common vocabulary
• Shared access to spend data
• Harmonised specifications
• Contract maps
• Single sourcing
• Capability management
• Maximum Value Delivered

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What is the road ahead like and what are the
potential barriers to overcome?
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A Commercial Directors Forecast

• Progress will be at varying speeds
• Data and data standards will be key to, and the
  measure of, success
• Niche systems have to give way to vanilla
• Cultural behaviours will need to be challenged
• A core skill will be good corporate citizenship
• Strategic procurement will replace transactional

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The context for this forecast

• Varying speeds
• Data
• Culture
• Systems
• Corporate citizenship
• Strategic Procurement

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Summary

• CEPAG vision is the start of a robust pan
  government strategy
• It is a sound framework through which we can
  deliver maximum value
• Collaboration is the key to making progress. Our
  capabilities will dictate how rapid this is.
• The spotlight is on us in the GPS and it will be
  up to us to deliver as Procurement Professionals.

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Questions?