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DSEI 2017: MoD puts innovation and exportability at centre of procurement

15th September 2017 - 10:20 GMT | by Alice Budge in London

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Innovation and exportability will be placed at the forefront of UK procurement policy as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) looks to simplify its procurement process.

In an effort to facilitate more effective cooperation between government and industry, Harriett Baldwin, minister for defence procurement, announced at DSEI a number of new measures.

With the aim of making the procurement process more accessible to UK based SMEs, Baldwin announced the launch of the defence suppliers portal designed to ‘make doing business with defence much more straight forward’.

‘We are making life easier for innovative companies inside and outside defence. We want it

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