Design and the Public Good: Creativity vs. the Procurement Process?

The APDIG, in partnership with the Design Business Association, has published the findings of its Parliamentary inquiry into public sector procurement of design and creative services.

'The Associate Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group and the Design BusinessAssociation undertook this inquiry, building on the findings of the Cox Review of Creativity in Business, to assess the relationship between government and its design providers, and to explore design’s potential to unlock innovation for the public sector. We take the term design in its broadest sense, as a verb rather than a noun, as a set of tools that enables a better way of doing things - whether that means designing effective policy, designing out waste, or designing services that work for users.'

Download a full copy of the report here