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An article in the Times last week from Oliver Dowden, who is the Minister for Implementation at the Cabinet Office, was the first we’ve heard […]
The Crown Commercial Service has issued an interesting Procurement Policy Note to finish the year. Usually these PPNs are very much related to technical procurement […]
Anyone who has worked in procurement for a while, in pretty much any organisation, knows that the rules and policies that govern procurement spend usually […]
Peter, I hear many of you asking. Why haven't you featured the very exciting 'green paper' the European Union has issued asking for ideas about […]
I've had a bit of a rant a couple of times here - and directly to a few 'OGC' people - about the sad state […]
I'm grateful to Philip Hoult, editor of Local Government Lawyer, who sent in a comment on my Spending Review post a little while ago: Peter, […]
** No. 294 in our series of 'great boring blog headlines I have known' Why do Procurement Directors get fired? That's a bit more interesting […]
I've been intending to cover this for a few days and now Jason has beaten me to it. So my first task is to refer […]
You realise you've probably been doing procurement for too long when you find the Hewlett-Packard corporate procurement policy more interesting than which particular soft-porn films […]
I met a lady from a large supplier ( a mix of consulting and some more 'delivery' type services) to Government today. She's just taken […]
You couldn't make it up. The latest expose in various papers today was the use of the GPC (Government Procurement Card). Here is the Daily […]
