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Competition

Tesco recently have launched the first Jack’s low-price store, designed to take on the fast-growing German discounters, Aldi and Lidl, firms that have taken chunks […]

We often hear comments along the lines of this – “we are happy for our suppliers to make a fair return”.  That comes from procurement […]

Competition sits right at the heart of effective procurement, it drives innovation, it promotes successful economies, and mitigates the risk of corruption.  It is, all […]

Here’s something the procurement profession could do that would have benefits to the UK economy, to governance of quoted companies, to the health of a […]

Is it the buyer’s responsibility to identify if a firm bidding to win a contract has bid “too low” – that is, at a price […]

Grant Thornton, the fifth-largest accounting and auditing firm in the UK, announced last week that it will no longer compete for auditing work from FTSE […]

Capitalism doesn't seem to be working too well at the moment, does it? If it wasn't for the lack of any other feasible economic system, […]

Public Spend Forum is dedicated to public sector procurement, and aims to be a global community and knowledge network for improving public procurement and the public sector […]

Public Spend Forum Europe is dedicated to European public sector procurement, and aims to be a global community and knowledge network for public procurement and the public […]

Public Spend Matters Europe is dedicated to the exciting and fascinating matters connected with European public sector procurement. As usual, before you think about switching off, it's […]

We have had several responses to our Ten Commandments of Procurement challenge - we’ve listed them at the bottom of this article. Thanks to those […]

The Office of Fair Trading has just published their report on "Commissioning and competition in the public sector". The initial headline from a quick skim […]