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I had a phone call the other day. "Hi, this is Garry.  I'm MD of Trade Extensions, we know Jason at Spend Matters and he […]

The Cabinet Office has published organagrams for UK Government Departments including salaries, number of positions at different levels and so on. All very interesting, if […]

Did you see strictly Come Dancing? (Not that I watch it usually of course, just happened to be passing etc etc...) Do you realise that […]

Guy is a good friend of mine and a great procurement leader; Abbey National / Santander, now Fujitsu CPO.  He is also one of those […]

It's getting hard to keep up with them; another bunch of providers have agreed MOUs with Government as part of the "negotiating immediate cost savings […]

In our latest post where we take three seemingly unconnected items and weave a rich strand of comment between them... we start with retired high […]

The bonfire of the quangos has turned out to be more of a slight toasting of the quangos.  No definite savings identified for a start; […]

I was talking  to a friend recently about an old colleague of ours from many years ago who has gone on to be one of […]

Look, one more day on the Sir Philip Green report then I promise I'll shut up.  Unless I do an FOI request to try and […]

I was about to write a post which was referring to a piece on the Procurement Intelligence Unit (PIU) website, when I realised I haven't […]

I was thinking that it must be about a year since I started this blog, but hadn''t got round to checking the date.  So, at […]

You read it here first.  When the first quango closing announcement was made shortly after the UK election, on May 25th, we said this : […]