Procurement News October 11th: Happy Christmas from Portsmouth, Tanzania and...
Tanzania hosts East Africa Procurement Forum Dar es Salaam was the venue last week for this event, attended by 200 plus delegates from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and beyond. The PPRA...
View ArticleThe Sir Philip Green report – and this time I really was on the radio – honest!
I wrote a rapid blog for Supply Management yesterday on the publication of the Green report; and that wasn’t the end of the excitement… As regular readers may remember, last time I told you I was going...
View ArticleShock, horror – closing Government organisations costs money
You read it here first. When the first quango closing announcement was made shortly after the UK election, on May 25th, we said this : “And in the case of Becta I struggle to see how this will save...
View ArticleSir Philip Green wants a uniform approach* to Police procurement
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 get the evidence behind the £73 box of paper… I’d also point you towards several...
View ArticleLocal sourcing, Walmart, and Felicity Kendall’s legs….
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 Felicity Kendall, and I’m being a little ungallant here, is older...
View ArticleAn open letter to Sepp Blatter and FIFA
Dear Mr Blatter The allegations of bribery around voting for the World Cup are unwelcome and serious. So it would seem to be an appropriate time to look at how FIFA might apply the principles of good...
View ArticleSpending Review today – and CPO Agenda article on public procurement
A lot of what we have heard about the Spending Review has been around things that aren’t being cut – schools, defence not as much as expected, Crossrail, Social care etc. So far, the numbers don’t...
View ArticleGet your BATNA out for the lads; did Wayne Rooney learn from Harvard? (Part 1)
Rooney is staying at Manchester United – a bit of a shock after all the things he said about ‘lack of ambition’ at the club! But was this all part of his negotiating strategy; was he merely building...
View ArticleGet your BATNA out for the lads; did Wayne Rooney learn from Harvard? (Part 2)
We discussed Wayne Rooney’s deal with Manchester United here yesterday, and how the negotiation concept of a BATNA played a key role. So was he consciously or sub-consciously developing that – his...
View ArticleCameron mentions public procurement (but only just); and how to help SMEs
UK Prime Minister David Cameron made his pro-growth speech this morning. Alongside a lot of good stuff around large-scale investment projects, I thought there might be some mention of how public...
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