Digital Planning Directory Online Show and Tell: Driving Innovation Through Smarter Procurement

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 1–2pm

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Join Digital Planning Directory Online Show & Tell Webinar: “Driving Innovation Through Smarter Procurement”

This Show & Tell will feature expert perspectives from across government and industry, exploring smarter approaches to procurement and how they can help scale digital planning innovation into mainstream planning practice.

This insightful session brings together expert speakers from the Cabinet Office, Crown Commercial Service, Innovate UK, and PUBLIC to share how Competitive Flexible Procedure, Space-enabled and Geospatial Services, and Contracts for Innovation can enable the adoption of digital planning solutions.

We will also introduce the newly released PropTech Business Case Templates and PropTech Benefits Calculator, now available in the Procurement Resource Hub of the Directory. These resources are designed to support planning officers in developing robust business cases using the Treasury’s Five Case Model, drawing on real-world examples from Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) that have successfully secured funding for planning technology.

Agenda outline:

Welcome and Introduction: Dr Wei Yang OBE, Digital Task Force for Planning

An Introduction to Public Procurement: Tolu Segun, PUBLIC

Using the Competitive Flexible Procedure to Procure Innovative Solutions: Ian Sears OBE, Government Commercial Function, Cabinet Office

Space Technology and Geospatial solutions through CCS: Stuart Florence, Crown Commercial Service

Contracts for Innovation: Celine Nithila George, Innovate UK

PropTech Business Case Templates & Benefits Calculator: Tolu Segun, PUBLIC

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain practical insight into smarter procurement for digital planning — register now!