Earlier this month the first Proctopus Christmas Party and Awards evening took place in the glittering surroundings of … Zoom. Proctopus is an informal group, largely LinkedIn based, that has […]
The second UK National Audit Office report on pandemic procurement was issued recently. Titled “The supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic” it focuses entirely on PPE. […]
The fraud section in my new book was great fun to write. I know you can’t and shouldn’t call fraud “fun” in any sense, but the case studies I researched […]
The NAO report on UK government procurement through the pandemic came out recently and we wrote about it here, focusing mainly on the PPE (personal protective equipment) issues it identified […]
This week saw the publication of the UK National Audit Office’s second report concerning government procurement during the pandemic. The first, all about ventilators, raised some interesting issues (which I […]
(Picture courtesy of my phone and a very old carrot from the back of the fridge) Let’s have a rest today from pandemic related buying failures, (potential) frauds and so […]
In our latest Bad Buying podcast, I interviewed Les Mosco who was Commercial Director at the Ministry of Defence for 7 years in the “noughties”, as well as being a […]
In episode 4 of my podcast, which you can now access from this website (see links below) I talk about fraud and corruption in buying, topics that feature heavily in […]
I was interviewed about my new Bad Buying book by Jeremy Vine on his UK Radio 2 BBC show last week – over 7 million listeners apparently. He seemed to […]
Peter looks at how “stupidity” is a common driver of Bad Buying, and shares the experience of his book being published – and reviewed in the Times. He also looks […]