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£29,000 a week to look after one boy

It’s a while since I wrote much about Bad Buying and I need to get back into the routine. And this story grabbed my attention, as an example of what looks on the surface at least like an appalling case of UK public sector waste and poor procurement.…

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£29,000 a week to look after one boy

Failure & F**k-Ups, UK, Public Sector, Central Government, Issue

Is Labour getting to grips with public procurement?

It is nine months now since the Labour Party was elected to power in the UK. Most of the country – including me – were happy to see the end of the incompetent Conservative government, and although I voted LibDem, I was pleased to see a…

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With this Bad Buying website we aim to shine a fearless spotlight on the things that go wrong with corporate buying and procurement – failures, frauds and f**k-ups, as I like to say. That does also mean highlighting and celebrating some of the positive ways in which organisations can avoid Bad Buying, as well as sticking the boot in when criticism is deserved. Fraud and corruption are also prevalent in the world of buying, and too often public and private sector bodies globally get away with some truly awful buying processes, practices and decisions that rarely get exposed and analysed. We aim to address that, and as any entrepreneur will tell you, we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. So we hope Bad Buying can help in that way too!

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