LUPC is a finalist in not just one, but two categories of the GO Awards!
We are beyond thrilled to have been shortlisted in both the categories we submitted entries for:
🏆 Procurement Transformation Through Technology Award
🏆 Public Procurement Project of the Year – Other Organisations
For an organisation of just 15, to have our small team of very dedicated individuals recognised for the commitment to and impact on the procurement community that we serve means a lot. We’re delighted that we are up there with finalists from much larger organisations.
Projects for Our Go Awards entries
Our Procurement Transformation Through Technology submission, Beyond Compliance: From Spreadsheets to Sector-Wide Platform. LUPC’s Responsible Procurement Transformation:
LUPC’s Responsible Procurement (RP) Hub demonstrates how technology can transform supplier engagement, due diligence and ongoing improvement across the public sector. Designed as a collaborative digital platform rather than a compliance exercise, the RP Hub uses a structured workflow to provide suppliers with detailed feedback, support improvement commitments and strengthen long‑term partnerships. Supplier feedback has directly shaped the platform’s evolution, including the introduction of a mechanism to integrate existing third‑party assessments, reducing duplication while maintaining consistent, like‑for‑like evaluation for members. The member interface empowers procurement professionals across around 120 institutions to interrogate supplier data, track progress over time and apply the same methodology to their own direct suppliers, extending responsible procurement throughout the supply chain.
LUPC’s Public Procurement Project of the Year – Other Organisations submission, Beyond Compliance: Procurement From Transition to Transformation, demonstrates how we enabled confidence across our membership and the wider community by leading from the front on the implementation of the Procurement Act 2023. Internally, we rapidly upskilled our procurement team through targeted webinars, practitioner‑level and deep‑dive training, to enable us to tender our frameworks compliantly. For our contracting authority members, we delivered practical, hands‑on support through a comprehensive suite of compliant templates and nine well‑attended webinars led with a procurement lawyer, described by attendees as the most “useful, practical and pragmatic” Act guidance they had received. For non‑contracting authorities, we developed best‑practice tendering resources to ensure high‑quality procurement irrespective of regulatory status. Working closely with legal advisors, these resources formed our Member Templates Project. The influence and reach of LUPC has enabled nationwide delivery to the entire HE sector and other key public sector organisations creating lasting, positive impact for stakeholders well beyond LUPC’s own membership.
A big thank you goes to all of the LUPC team for the valued work that they do for our members.
We wish all our fellow finalists the best of luck, especially our member organisations University of Greenwich, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, NHS Blood & Transplant, and DEFRA.
