Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister, and ensures the effective running of government. As the corporate headquarters for government, in partnership with HM Treasury, they take the lead in certain critical policy areas, with responsibilities including promotion of efficiency and reform across government through innovation, better procurement and project management, and by transforming the delivery of services.

Andrew Presly is a highly accomplished RICS-chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 11 years' experience in the construction industry. He is an industry-recognised construction commercial expert in the office fit-out sector who has delivered over 5 million sq.ft of office space to public and private sector clients across the UK, and has procured over £700m worth of construction, professional services and furniture in his career so far. Andrew spent 8 years based in London at two large construction consultancy firms, advising large white collar organisations on how to maximise value through their procurement and contracting models, and was responsible for the procurement buy-out of all of HMRC's construction contracts for their estates transformation programme. Having moved to Manchester in 2020, Andrew joined Government Property Agency (GPA) to continue his work with the public sector, providing commercial leadership to GPA's Capital Projects team in Northern England, with a potential construction value of £1.6bn. Andrew's commitment to apply his commercial expertise and extensive industry knowledge to maximise local economic benefits and value to the tax-payer's money makes him a trusted advisor in the fields of public and private sector construction.

As Head of Procurement Services at YPO, Michelle leads on forming strategic stakeholder partnerships, nurturing internal relationships and collaborating with customers within the YPO supply chain. She has extensive experience in the public sector, specifically within the NHS and higher education at Sheffield Hallam University. This included 15 years within the NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) in Sheffield, with her most recent role leading a team within the healthcare services and pharmacy category.

Andrew is the Chief Executive of HACT. HACT partners with organisations across the housing sector to drive value for residents and communities through insight-led products and services which encourage innovation and foster collaboration. HACT helps them measure their social value, better understand the communities they serve, broker collaborations with the NHS, and connect with like-minded organisations. Andrew has worked for HACT for 21 years and in housing, homelessness, supported housing, community development and wider social policy and practice for over 30 years. He is a Non-Executive Director at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. Andrew was awarded an OBE in the King’s New Year Honours List 2023 for services to housing.

Nick McDonald is the Procurement Specialist in NEPO’s corporate services and ICT category. With a background in NHS and Local Government procurement, he has spent the last five years working on various projects to implement public sector frameworks. These frameworks were developed through extensive stakeholder and market engagement, ensuring that the needs of both public sector buyers and suppliers are met while delivering efficiencies, innovation, and value for money.

Sean McNabb is currently a Director in the CMA’s Competition enforcement team. His background is as a fraud investigator and he has been involved in cartel enforcement for over 20 years, having previously worked at the Office of Fair Trading.  He has worked on a number of successful criminal and civil cartel investigations involving a diverse range of industries ranging from airlines, estate agents, furniture products and various sectors of the construction industry, including leading the largest ever cartel investigation in the UK which resulted in fines totalling £63.6million being issued to 103 construction firms found to have engaged in bid rigging with competitors on building contracts, including many for the public sector. Sean was also Project Director for the recent CMA investigation into bid-rigging in the demolition sector which resulted in 10 companies being fined £60 million.

Lisa has been with Haringey Council for 19 years, bringing extensive procurement experience across various sectors, including care, supplies and services, and construction. Since 2018, she has successfully established and led a dedicated team responsible for managing the Council's extensive portfolio of DPS systems and frameworks, ensuring seamless engagement with stakeholders and suppliers. In addition, Lisa leads the London Construction Programme (LCP), a virtual organisation hosted by Haringey Council, serving as a one-stop shop for public sector construction procurement. The LCP facilitates the procurement of a wide range of projects, from Professional Services to Minor and Major Works schemes across London and the Home Counties. Now, over 50 public sector organisations are benefitting from efficient, compliant procurement processes that the LCP offers. Lisa has been instrumental in leading innovation in end-to-end procurement practices which has recently been demonstrated in the launch of LCP’s Housing Framework, which takes a unique approach to Social Value, Supporting SME’s, and bringing together the Golden Thread that runs through the Gold Standard, Construction Playbook and the Framework Alliance Contract (FAC-1).

Recognised as a thought leader on public innovation, Rikesh is the Head of the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre hosted by the Connected Places Catapult focused on driving more innovation value through public procurement. Previously Rikesh led Transport for London’s award-winning innovation team to create new value for London by working with start-ups, corporates, academia, accelerators and venture capitalists to solve some of London’s key challenges. Rikesh was also responsible for TfL’s world leading open data programme which has 17,000 registered users, 700 apps powered by TfL data used by 42% of Londoners which an independent review stated that it’s worth to London is £130m per annum. He also was actively in involved during the 2012 Olympic Games and TfL’s response to COVID-19. Rikesh also previously worked at PA Consulting shaping their open data and open innovation practice. Most recently, Rikesh has been recognised in the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech in 2019 - 2021, being named one of the top five for sustainability in 2019. He was also recognised in the Top 100 Influencers for the Drum Digirati in 2018. Rikesh sits on the London Transport Museum Board as a Non-Executive Director, as well as a Civic Innovation Director (Non-Executive Director) at Cities Today, the global public innovation think tank. He has also been an Ambassador for London Tech Week since 2020. In academia, Rikesh is Guest Lecturing on Open Innovation at the Royal College of Arts, Harvard University and the University of Oxford. Rikesh also served on the Mayor of London’s Smart London Board from 2016 to 2023.

Esther Beaumont is Head of Category Management at Seven Force, with over 25 year’s commercial experience & 17 years working in Public Sector Procurement, within Local Authorities and the Emergency services sector. She is currently responsible for directing and leading commercial activities, and tendering and supplier relationship management activity across 7 Police Forces in the Eastern region. Her key category areas include ICT, Construction & FM, Frontline Operational requirements, Corporate Services & Community Based services.

Moira Skinner is the Founder and Director of ProcureCo – a new digital platform directly connecting buyers and suppliers in the public sector and social housing markets to share knowledge and conduct meaningful preliminary market engagements. Moira has worked across public and private sectors and has extensive experience on both the buyer and supplier sides of public sector procurement. In roles focused on delivering SME engagement and social value, including as a local authority economic programme director, Moira has collaborated with large corporations, SMEs and microbusinesses. As Managing Director of community interest company 3D Change, Moira has led key programmes including the London Jobs Fairs and Procurement Opportunities in Social Housing (POSH). Working alongside procurement professionals and industry leaders across multiple organisations, divisions and departments, Moira has developed ProcureCo, a digital solution for contracting organisations seeking to carry out preliminary market engagements and for suppliers looking to provide goods and services to the public sector.

Benjamin Taylor has been the Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy since 2014, a non-profit social enterprise made up of sector-leading organisations, and delivering capability building for transformation, and the Cabinet Office Commissioning Academy for senior public sector leaders. He is also the Managing Partner at RedQuadrant, an efficiency and transformation consultancy for the public sector.

Helen started her career in the homeless sector, working directly with young people and then adult drug and alcohol users. She was a consultant and trainer for 5 years before moving into commissioning. She held responsibility for the commissioning of early years and play and targeted services for children and young people in Lambeth. As Lambeth developed its approach to co-operative commissioning, Helen played a major role in helping to transform Children Services using outcomes based commissioning, alliancing and co-production principles. She is now a co-director of the Ideas Alliance and associate for the New Economics Foundation supporting other Local Authorities, ICBs and voluntary sector organisations to rethink the role of citizens in the commissioning, design and delivery of public services and resources, helping them to develop and implement their approaches with co-production, collaboration and outcomes at the heart.

A specialist public benefit lawyer for over 35 years, Julian focusses on: Social Enterprise & Co-operatives; Charity Law; Purposeful Business; Public Service Commissioning; Procurement and Subsidy Control; Innovation & Community Partnerships; Social Finance & Impact Investment; Social & Public Value; Collaboration Arrangements; Education; Health & Social Care; and Renewable Energy. He promotes the mature social enterprise model through E3M, which he helped establish in 2012. He is the co-author of “The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement” (2016), which has had a significant effect in opening the area of purpose-driven, place-based collaboration in public services. He collaborated in the E3M publication “Vitalising Purpose: the power of the social enterprise difference in public services”(2023). He is also co-author of “The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement: New Horizons for Empowering Innovation” (2024), which develops themes from the 2016 publication in the context of the Procurement Act 2023. He is a member of the VCSE Crown Representative’s Advisory Panel to Government; the Oxford University Government Outcomes Lab Procurement Group; the National Social Value Taskforce & participates in the Co-operative Council Innovation Network. He has been a trustee of series of charities. Currently he is a trustee of the international equality, diversity and inclusion consultancy, Media Diversity Institute, and the impact investor for black and ethnically minoritised communities, the Pathway Fund.

Matt Jarratt is the Director of Operations at Procure Plus leading the team responsible for the procurement and delivery of over £200m of investment works and services per year across the housing and public sector. His team of specialists utilise the collective volume and knowledge of their customers to understand the market and drive continuous improvement from their activity and exposure to it. Matt is a chartered building surveyor and prior to joining Procure Plus in April 2010 he worked in a range of construction and development roles across the public and private sectors.

Joanna has been a driving force behind the creation and management of the social value function in London Borough of Waltham Forest, since its inception in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience leading on various investment and regeneration initiatives that promote inclusive growth and community wealth building, under Joanna leadership the Council has transformed the way it maximises social impact through its contracts for services, regeneration, and construction works. Over the past four years, the collaborative efforts of the Council and its supply chain have yielded over £49 million in delivered social value, laying the foundation for a substantial pipeline of future benefits.

With over 18 years of public sector procurement experience working across a number of Local Authorities, Adam currently leads an award-winning shared Procurement service. He has worked to ensure Social Value is a key component within how Procurement and Contract Management is delivered and strives to ensure appropriate and innovative solutions are at the forefront of Social Value organisational priorities.

Clare joined Procure Plus in 2012 and leads the company’s procurement team. Clare is responsible for delivering procurement that supports customers in the construction, maintenance and repair of their properties. Clare is passionate about using procurement as a means to create positive change for social housing and improving the experience of bidders who participate in tender processes. Clare is a strong supporter of new entrants to the public procurement profession and has a keen interest in continued professional development. Clare has a particular interest in procurement legislation and regularly advises customers on matters associated with public procurement. Clare has a background in public sector procurement management, having previously worked within central government, health and local authority sectors.

Adam heads the SCF team across the South East and London, is regional representative at the NACF (National Association of Construction Frameworks), and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. Adam has successfully implemented commercial and innovations within the SCF framework processes, and is a contributor to construction industry standards the BSI (British Standards Institute).

Kingsley heads the SCF team in the South West region, is the Chair of CESW, a regional representative of NACF (National Association of Construction Frameworks) and a Director on the JCT Board (representing the Local Government Association). In his role with SCF he’s accountable for generating and overseeing the successful delivery of the South West pipeline of work, helping public sector clients to deliver projects which have ranged from c£500k to £256 million. Having supported over £4billion of construction procurement Kingsley has industry leading experience delivering capital construction and maintenance projects for the public sector including central Government, local authorities, and higher education institutions.

Mark has spent over two decades in senior leadership roles for large, complex organisations with demanding short- and long-term operational challenges, including Oxford Brookes University and the BBC. In these roles, he has successfully driven operational change and delivered hundreds of millions of pounds in major capital projects. He has had an eclectic career, training as an electronics engineer and working on TV shows for many years in technical and project management roles. His transition into property came through obtaining planning permission for Albert Square, the fictional home of EastEnders. At Oxford Brookes, his first job was to devise, procure, implement, and embed new systems and processes to transform the project management function. This has underpinned the delivery of hundreds of projects, including two major builds that had both stalled.

Simon has over 25 years experience of working in the industry, having started his career with a leading UK architectural practice delivering commercial projects for Bluechip companies, however 15years ago Simon found that applying the commercial principles to public sector project drove significant value for money. He is recognised as the country’s leading Bluelight architects and has also delivered significant local authority, health and education projects. Simon has group responsibility for Public Sector Projects and Frameworks, including being named as the SCF lead and has been delivering 2 stage open book projects for over 10 years.