About
The Campaign for Fair Procurement seeks to bring together SMEs, business leaders, legal experts and politicians from across the UK to facilitate a meaningful conversation about public procurement.
We aim to make the public procurement process:
Fairer for SMEs
More Transparent
Better Value for Taxpayers
We lobby policy-makers, engage the media and partner with other campaign groups in support of SMEs forced to navigate a public procurement system that is fundamentally broken. A system currently plagued by inequity, an overemphasis on social value that often marginalises small business and bureaucratic processes that haemorrhage taxpayers’ money on an industrial scale.
Our Goals
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Raise awareness of the challenges faced by SMEs in the public procurement system
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Expose the huge sums of wasted taxpayers’ money resulting from bureaucratic procurement processes
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Build a coalition of business leaders, policymakers and other stakeholders to help us champion public procurement reform
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Promote value for the UK Government’s £379 billion annual procurement budget
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Support other organisations that share our vision for fair public procurement
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Engage with politicians and the media to ensure public procurement reform is provided a more prominent place on the Government’s policy agenda
Our Team
Robert Jessel, Co-founder and CEO
Robert is a communications and public affairs professional and seasoned political campaigner. In 2019 he co-founded Fair Cop, the pressure group dedicated to exposing the police’s infringement of citizens’ rights to freedom of speech. The campaign resulted in the landmark High Court judgment Miller v College of Policing and led to Home Secretaries past and present putting pressure on Chief Constables to stamp out police forces’ infringements of citizens’ rights under ECHR Articles 8-11. Robert’s other campaigning work includes strategic consultancy for organisations including LGB Alliance, Don’t Divide Us, Independent Network, and Together Declaration.
Jack Codling, Campaign Manager
Graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2021 with a BA and MSc in International Relations, Jack has since worked in PR and communications in the built environment and international development sectors and for a London mayoral campaign.