Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report – Just Terrible
I’ve generally stayed away from writing about the Grenfell fire tragedy. It just seemed too serious and horrible an issue to be talking about “bad buying” and technical procurement issues. […]
Entries by Peter Smith
CIPS Annual Report – a Mixed Bag
The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) annual report is out now for the year ending October 2023. I’m not sure exactly when it was published but it always […]
Big consulting firms fail to “Transform”
A recent report suggested that the majority of clients of the big three strategy consulting firms are unhappy with the performance of the large consulting firms. An article in The […]
Prioritisation Matters – A Story about my Phone
I’ve been intending to tell this story for a couple of months now, but prevarication is a terrible thing, as we will see. I owned – well, I still do […]
A Walk Through HS2
It is a while since I wrote about the UK’s infinite rail transport money pit, also known as HS2. When I first started criticising it years ago, based on my […]
My Manifesto for Public Procurement
I commented recently on the major UK political parties’ manifestos in terms of their procurement ideas, and literally thousands of readers – well, one or two – said “so what […]
PPE and the UK taxpayer get burnt (again)
A new BBC investigation finds huge amounts of PPE still being disposed of.
The Minister for Public Procurement Speaks!
Yes, as we’re into the UK election campaign now, articles for the next few weeks may well have a political theme I’m afraid. Alex Burghart has been in his role […]
Labour Wants to Use “PFI” – Please Be Careful!
As we’re into the election period in the UK, the Labour Party is promising capital investment (in roads for instance) but saying that much of the money will apparently come […]
Guildford Council “Fraud” – WTF?!
An alleged fraud at Guildford Council exposes major failures in procurement and financial management.