Of course, the dailies have highlighted the Dragons’ Den-style product surgeries, where SMEs can pitch ‘innovative products’ to public sector procurement honchos, as one of the key offerings, but for me it has to be its ditching of pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQs) for tenders worth less than £100,000 and the one-size-fits-all approach for PQQs for larger deals that cover similar products.

These irksome forms, which can stretch to dozens of pages, were arguably the most painful part of the public sector procurement process, so their demise will be welcomed I’m sure.

Of course, for this to have any impact then the practice of bundling various print tenders into one mega-deal will have to end. Otherwise the suffering inflicted by those £100k-plus bundled tenders, where a dozen or more firms ‘win’ preferred supplier status only to discover that their slice of the pie is substantially less, even though the pain of the process wasn’t, will continue.

The good news is that speaking at the launch of the government’s new Contracts Finder last Friday, where the shake-up was revealed, the Prime Minister said large contracts would be broken up "wherever possible". How exactly this will work is unclear.

Because right now, if you search the new Contracts Finder site for ‘print’ you get 271 results, but if you click on ‘show items suitable for smaller suppliers’ all you get is "We found 0 results for your search. Try again".

And if the detail’s not nailed down, then the same response could result from the tender shake-up.

Darryl Danielli, editor, PrintWeek