Solicitor and Public Procurement Consultant Bradford City Council, Editor of the Public Procurement Page.

Jack Hayward moved into procurement after a career as a commercial solicitor. He spent seven years as head of Contracts and Procurement for the biggest regional railway company in the UK .Upon the implementation of the Public Procurement Regulations 2006 he became a consultant specialising in advising public bodies on procurement compliance as well as developing a keen interest in the outsourcing of services and the development of social enterprise companies.

Jack has advised Public Bodies including Local Authorities and Universities both in the UK and abroad. Jack is currently involved, amongst other things, in the establishment of a number of mutually owned service delivery vehicles in the education sector.

Jack writes and lectures extensively on Public Procurement and related issues and is the editor of the Public Procurement Page http://www.publicprocurementpage.eu/ He is also a member of the Executive Programme in Public Procurement at the University of Nottingham and a member of the Procurement Law Academic Network.