When the government wants to pretend it's buying more from British small
businesses
In 2015, Matt Hancock claimed the government would spend £1 in every £3 with
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by
It was in 2017 that I first stumbled on the data
[https://www.convivio.com/blog/is-it-a-larger-cow-or-has-it-just-been-moved-closer/]
that made a mockery of government press releases and ministerial claims about
the growth in business
'£1 in every £3 government spends will be with small businesses by 2020' looks like the kind of snappy attractive claim someone could put on the side of a bus.
It's the
Dull old procurement has never been in the news so much, for so many of the wrong reasons. This post introduces a 'box set' of blogs examining the issues, particularly regarding public sector digital and SMEs