
We wrote here about the problems at Northamptonshire County Council (NCC), both generally and looking at the issues around their outsourced service businesses, including a […]
We wrote here about the problems at Northamptonshire County Council (NCC), both generally and looking at the issues around their outsourced service businesses, including a […]
There is only one town in the UK that hosts a top-flight (four highest divisions) football team, a Premiership rugby outfit and a top-level county […]
This is a complex story that has been reported for some time. But it still hasn’t become clear really to the external observer just what […]
£10.25 million is a lot of money for a fairly small borough council. Think how hard the procurement team at Northampton Borough Council would have […]
Regular readers will know of the IBM Southwest One public sector outsourcing contract in Somerset which was beset by problems and according to campaigner Dave […]
We are delighted to publish this post from James Jeffrey, Business Writer, at Applegate – the B2B marketplace for buyers and sellers. In the financial year […]
We wrote here about the challenges in social care procurement facing local authorities who are major buyers of these services, as well as care recipients […]
It is known that invoice-related fraud or fake invoices being manually processed through Accounts Payable can cost a business or local authority hundreds of thousands […]
In the pre-Christmas chaos, I'm sorry to say we missed the news on December 21st that BT failed in their high court bid to stop […]
Last week, Somerset County Council announced the termination of their Southwest One contract with IBM. Whilst the other two parties to the contract, Somerset Police […]
Articles from Tony Collins have been featured here over the years and he continues to be one of the most incisive and interesting commentators on […]
Sad to say, another local government outsourcing deal looks to have run into trouble. Dave Orr (who campaigned for transparency on the pretty disastrous IBM […]