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an awful lot , but there ’ s a lot more that we can do with it ,” he says .
“ Public sector bodies have to publish spend of £ 250 plus a month , and there are companies out there that will do analysis from that . They take that data and send it back to you in a format which enables you to interrogate it . There are some advantages because you haven ’ t got to do lots of data cleansing , although it ’ s not as rich as our own data , ( it ’ s fairly high level ) it does at least enable you to start asking questions .
“ There ’ s a lot more we can do with spend data through our business intelligence side , such as cross-matching service performance data , with spend and budget data . We can then explore for example , if we have a really high performing function What are we spending on that ? What outcomes are being delivered ? Is it underpinned by lots of contracts ? I think this would be really valuable in the future in determining our ROI .
“ We ’ ve been approaching this over the summer doing a proof of concept with Cloudwick and Amazon Web Services , using things like natural language processing and machine learning to identify the potential use of such tools to help us deliver services more effectively .”
Levy is eager to enhance capacity and capability across the organisations . Developing a training programme for staff , covering everything from the basics around process to sustainable procurement , social value and contract management , the tool encompasses the entire procurement cycle .
“ Some elements of the training programme are integral . Without it , people
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