We welcome this guest article courtesy of Lee Pruitt, CEO, InstaSupply - spend control as a service technology provider. A growing business has to manage many […]
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Coupa Sales Continue To Grow But Firm Is Victim of CEO-Impersonator / Scammer
It has been an interesting couple of weeks for spend management software firm Coupa. Having launched a successful IPO last autumn, the firm released fourth-quarter […]
Managing Conflicts of Interest
Today, we'd like to bring you some recent(ish) stories that got our attention: A Chairman gets advice on sustainable construction (for his own house) from […]
UCL Procurement Partners – Update on NHS Fraud Investigation
Just keeping our readers up to date at the start of a New Year … You may remember the news about a senior member of […]
Barratt Developments Fraud – Certainly Was a “Different Procurement Process”
As the old expression says, “where there’s muck, there’s brass”. In other words, there is money to be made in dirty, unpleasant jobs. But we […]
Bromley CCG – Another Basic Public Sector Procurement Fraud
This has only at time of writing been picked up by The Bromley Times. A “senior commissioner”, working for the Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group, was […]
Public Spend Forum Europe – Public Procurement Highlights from Last Week
Public Spend Forum Europe is dedicated to the exciting and fascinating matters connected with European public sector procurement and further afield, and aims to be a global […]
UK Department of Education Pays £1 Million To Non-Existent Companies in Latest Fraud
Another public sector fraud hit the press last week, with an unusual aspect in that the perpetrator was exposed by a combination of his girlfriend […]
Ezubao and the Risk of Scandals in the Peer-to-Peer Finance Market
Have you read about the Chinese firm Ezubao? If you haven’t, it’s worth following the story, which may yet have implications for western countries and […]
Haringey Fraud – Where Was the “Procurement” Discipline?
The latest in a long line of frauds committed by employees was featured in the papers last week. In this disgraceful case, it was a […]
Petrobras Scandal – New York Times Article Highlights Sheer Scale of the Fraud
If you are interested in supple chain and / or political corruption, or just want to read a good and dramatic real-life story, we can […]
Procurement Fraud – What is the Cleverest Example You’ve Seen ?
Yesterday the first of this year's BravoSolution Real World Sourcing series events took place at the new venue of the Jugged Hare, London. I was […]