The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) is currently making major changes to how the Institute is run, its governance and structure. Unfortunately It is implementing the changes after […]
How do you go about incentivising suppliers within a contract to perform in the manner you REALLY want them to? The complications tend to come in contracts for services, rather […]
Another UK pandemic-related supplier appointed in haste without competition (and perhaps without proper due diligence) appears to have failed in performance terms. Immensa Health Clinic is being investigated scrutiny after […]
Procurement fraud is common and fraudsters are typically not who you might expect them to be.
There was a cri de coeur from Matthew Parris in today’s Times newspaper (behind the paywall). He was concerned about the British public’s expectations that the government could sort out […]
(Two posts in a row about blood – that’s a bit weird)! Earlier this month, Elizabeth Holmes went on trial in San Jose, California, accused of six counts of fraud. […]
Last year, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) hit the headlines when shortages threatened the lives of health workers and patients in the early months of the pandemic. That demonstrated how a […]
I still don’t know if there will be a “Bad Buying Returns” book or perhaps an updated edition of the first volume, but the stories keep on coming in terms […]
Returning to the Greensill supply chain finance (SCF) scandal, the excellent BBC Panorama programme earlier this month dug further into the affair, including the role of ex-Prime Minster David Cameron. […]
Sadly, my mother passed away last month, aged 93. A broken hip, covid and pneumonia all hastened the end, but “frailty due to old age” was probably a fair enough […]