{"id":2352,"date":"2020-12-22T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:35:56","slug":"our-first-scottish-procurement-vlog-with-nick-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/2020\/12\/22\/our-first-scottish-procurement-vlog-with-nick-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first Scottish Procurement vlog with Nick Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Scottish Procurement Vlog Ep 01\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/493312064?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Introducing the\u00a0first in a series of Scottish Procurement vlogs, Nick Ford, director of Scottish Procurement and Property, reflects on the key achievements of recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Recognising the considerable effort from across the whole of the public procurement sector in dealing with the challenges we have faced and looking ahead to our ongoing commitment to delivering for Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/scottishprocurement\">Vimeo<\/a>\u00a0channel and look out for further vlogs in the New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first episode of our vlog is now on Vimeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":2356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,218],"tags":[472,13,6,335],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish-procurement","category-video","tag-nick-ford","tag-public-sector-procurement","tag-scottish-procurement","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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