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The most recent assessment for 2020/21 calculated that the purchased goods and services (inc. works) we buy accounted for 87% of the Welsh Public Sector’s carbon footprint.
Blog by Brendan Burke.

Looking back I find it incredible to think of all of the work that has gone into taking forward the recommendations forward. The pace has certainly picked up since Procurex last year. Cyd as a brand has now replaced the name Procurement Centre of Excellence.
Blog by David Nicholson.

While the COVID-19 pandemic raised the profile of procurement as an important strategic lever to support organisational outcomes, it also placed huge challenges on procurement leaders, with recruitment and retention more difficult than ever because of talent shortages across the profession.
Blog by Rhian Rogers

Cydrannu is name of our new knowledge sharing series for procurement and commercial professionals in Wales.  Cydrannu means ‘sharing together’ in Welsh and is core to what Cyd is all about.

Before I started working on the Cyd (the new procurement centre of excellence for Wales) alpha project, I didn’t quite appreciate the enormous difference procurement teams across Wales could do to help us reach net zero by 2030.
Blog by Angharad Prys.

Today we’re launching a temporary website for Cyd along with Twitter and LinkedIn accounts to share progress and start conversations about the project.

In this blog, we provide an update on how the ‘Procurement Centre of Excellence’ is developing and shares some findings about what it could be called going forward.
Blog by Victoria Ford.

In this second blogpost from our series about procurement, Warren, a member of our delivery […]

In October Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Local Government announced that a supplier […]