This free webinar is hosted by Scotland Excel and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and builds on our very successful webinar in March 2024 where 250 delegates joined. The webinar is open to anyone working within the Scottish public sector and registered Scottish charities.
After this webinar, you'll have an understanding of the risks of fraud, crime and manipulation in public procurement. You will also be able to identify common bid-rigging red flags and recognise the most common forms it can take.
The webinar will be delivered in two sessions:
Session 1, presented by Aileen Toland, Academy Tutor at Scotland Excel, involves raising awareness of fraud in procurement. We will discuss what fraud looks like pre and post contract and the business sectors involved. We will also look at measures to mitigate fraud via the procurement and contract management cycles and illustrate questions which procurement and the wider organisation can consider to help stop organisations involved in fraud infiltrating their contracts.
Session 2, presented by Deborah Wilkie, Director of Competition Enforcement at the CMA, will examine the risks of bid rigging in public procurement and outline the red flags which can help identify cartels. Deborah will draw on recent CMA cases involving bid-rigging as well as looking at how the recently passed Procurement Act could impact working arrangements in Scotland, where around £16 billion a year is spent on public procurement. Deborah will also provide insight on the latest developments in the CMA’s use of data analytics tools to detect bid-rigging in public procurement data and a guide to the safest steps which can be taken to report suspicious behaviours.
There will be time for questions after both sessions have been delivered.
This online event opens from 10.25am on 5 November 2025 and will commence at 10.30am, lasting for approximately ninety minutes. Tickets are restricted to four per person - should the event reach capacity, a waiting list will be used to allocate any cancelled tickets.
