Reflections on the Making Spend Matter Transfer Network
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It is a fact of life that all good things must come to an end. On 4th June 2021, the Making Spend Matter Transfer Network journey will officially...
10 Reasons Why…. Cities Should Interpret Their Spend Analysis
At the second Transnational Meeting of the Making Spend Matter Network held in Kavala in June 2019, our partners shared how they have used the Spend...
Rethinking public procurement for SMEs: Making Spend Matter partners explore why business size does in fact matter.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) dominate the private sector and contribute to strong, inclusive local economies. However, too often their...
Engaging SMEs to participate in public procurement: Koszalin’s Key Challenges
Statistics from the European Union, Poland and local analyses by the City of Koszalin demonstrate that still a low percentage of Small and Medium...
The Wonder Chest of Public Procurement by Bistrita
It was a sunny day in Bistrita, Romania when two wonderful, skilled, powerful women from Preston (U.K.) came to explain better what a Transfer...
Vila Nova de Famalicão’s - Making Spend Matter Experience
It’s been ten years since the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão felt the necessity to unify the public purchases. Because of this fact, it has...
Spend Analysis and Procurement Behaviours
The first meeting of Phase 2 of the Making Spend Matter Transfer Network took place in early February 2019. At the meeting, Preston City Council...
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Preston's Procurement Timeline
A detailed timeline representing the good practice from Preston.
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Making Spend Matter
"Instead of looking to attract wealth through inward investment, we started to think about the wealth we already had at our disposal and building and...