Real Stories.
Real Impact.
Procurex Wales brings the GO Awards winning entries to life — hear directly from the teams behind Wales' most outstanding procurement achievements.
Three award-winning teams. Three remarkable challenges. One stage. These sessions go beyond the trophy — into the decisions, the pressure, and the results.
Featured Sessions
GO Awards Case Studies
Each session features the team behind the award-winning work, sharing what happened, how they responded, and what you can take back to your own organisation.
Digital Health and Care Wales · Rachel Stirrup
Insolvencies and Contract Breaches: A Case Study in Crisis Management
A supplier of critical GP clinical systems entered administration — with over 160 practices mid-migration and patient safety on the line. DHCW had hours, not weeks, to respond. This is the story of what came next.
Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
Transforming a Legacy PFI Contract: Escaping a 20-Year, £500m Agreement
Exiting a long-running Private Finance Initiative is one of the most complex challenges in public procurement. DVLA became one of the first government bodies to do it successfully — and saved £36m in the process.
Caerphilly CBC & Simply Do · Ian Evans
Filling the Supplier Void Through the Live Supplier Directory
Traditional procurement tools were missing local businesses entirely. Caerphilly County Borough Council partnered with Simply Do to build an AI-powered solution that surfaces suppliers others can't find. Over 650 previously invisible businesses later — the results speak for themselves.
What to Expect
More Than a Presentation
Each case study session is designed to be honest, practical, and genuinely useful — whatever sector you work in.
Straight Talking
The real decisions, the setbacks, and what they'd do differently — not a polished PR version.
Lessons You Can Use
Each session ends with practical takeaways for procurement teams of all sizes.
Meet the Teams
Speakers are available to connect after their session — bring your questions.
Welsh Context
Stories rooted in the Welsh public sector landscape, reflecting the challenges you face.
These sessions are free to attend — but seats won't last
Register for Procurex Wales 2026 to secure your place and access all three case study sessions on 11 November at Utilita Arena, Cardiff.
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Celebrated & Shared.
At Procurex Wales 2026, we're shining a spotlight on the kind of work that wins awards — and the lessons every procurement professional can take from it.
These are just some of the outstanding entries from GO Awards Wales 2025/26. The kind of real-world procurement challenges — and remarkable responses — that will inspire our case study sessions at Procurex Wales 2026.
GO Awards Wales 2025/26 Highlights
Award-Winning Procurement in Practice
We're highlighting some of last year's most compelling GO Awards winning entries — a glimpse of the real challenges, bold decisions, and measurable outcomes that our case study sessions at Procurex Wales 2026 will bring to life.
Digital Health and Care Wales
When a Supplier Goes Under: Keeping Wales' GP Systems Running
A supplier of critical GP clinical systems entered administration — with over 160 practices mid-migration and patient safety on the line. DHCW had hours, not weeks, to respond. This is the story of what came next.
Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
Escaping a 20-Year, £500m Contract — and Saving £36m Along the Way
Exiting a long-running Private Finance Initiative is one of the most complex challenges in public procurement. DVLA became one of the first government bodies to do it successfully — and saved £36m in the process.
Caerphilly CBC & Simply Do
650 Suppliers Nobody Knew Existed — Found Using AI
Traditional procurement tools were missing local businesses entirely. Caerphilly County Borough Council partnered with Simply Do to build an AI-powered solution that surfaces suppliers others can't find. Over 650 previously invisible businesses later — the results speak for themselves.
Caerphilly County Borough Council
One Food Framework, 19 Public Bodies, One Welsh Supply Chain
Public sector food buying across Wales was fragmented, with small and regional suppliers routinely locked out. Caerphilly CBC led 19 public bodies to build a single, flexible food framework — split into over 150 regional and commodity-specific lots — so local producers could compete on equal footing.
Carmarthenshire County Council
Flipping the Scorecard: 60% Quality, 40% Cost, £35m of Community Value
For its flagship Pentre Awel health and wellbeing development, Carmarthenshire County Council reversed the standard evaluation weighting — prioritising social value and quality over lowest price — to choose a contractor with a genuine track record of community benefit, not just the cheapest bid.
BOF
Making "Reuse First" the Default, Not the Exception
Public sector customers said they wanted furniture reuse — but demand never followed. BOF removed the barrier by building its own in-house refurbishment facility, turning "new furniture as a last resort" into a genuine one-stop service for Welsh Government and other public bodies.
Welsh Government — Procurement Reform Team
Delivering a Once-in-a-Generation Procurement Act, On Time and Bilingually
Over £10bn is spent on public procurement in Wales every year. The Procurement Reform Team led the delivery of the Procurement Act 2023 — aligning two separate legislative systems, securing cross-party consent, and bringing the whole sector along with them before the law even changed.
University of South Wales
Building "Calon": How a £40M Building Delivered £21M in Social Value
USW's most ambitious procurement to date came with a stakeholder lead new to public procurement and a live design-and-build contract to get right. A bespoke Social Value Matrix turned pledges into measurable, tracked outcomes — reinvesting a major share of the project's value straight back into South Wales.
Ardal Procurement
Four Councils, One Procurement Service: Building Ardal from Scratch
An under-resourced local government procurement workforce across South East Wales needed a different model. Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Torfaen and Monmouthshire pooled their procurement functions into Ardal — a single service built to share expertise, scale social value work, and manage three major regional frameworks together.
What to Expect
More Than a Presentation
Our case study sessions are designed to go beyond the award — honest, practical, and genuinely useful for procurement professionals at every level.
Straight Talking
The real decisions, the setbacks, and what they'd do differently — not a polished PR version.
Lessons You Can Use
Each session ends with practical takeaways for procurement teams of all sizes.
Meet the Teams
Speakers are available to connect after their session — bring your questions.
Welsh Context
Stories rooted in the Welsh public sector landscape, reflecting the challenges you face.