Congratulations to Shirley Cooper, CIPS Past President, who has become the UK government’s “Crown Representative for small businesses”. In that role, she will represent the interests of smaller firms, particularly […]
There was a major announcement this week in UK public sector procurement. Gareth Rhys Williams (GRW), who has been Chief Commercial Officer for government since 2016 was appointed the new […]
The dental service in the UK is falling apart because of badly designed contracts that do not incentivise dentists appropriately
The new NAO report on NHS Supply Chain highlights some major areas for improvement
Robert Colville traces the history of the Horizon software in the Times and quotes from the Bad Buying book!
On ITV this week, there has been a dramatisation of the Post Office Horizon scandal – “Mr Bates versus the Post Office”. It has got very good reviews but in […]
The legal case against Medpro for supplying allegedly dodgy PPE continues – there are some interesting questions which the government side will need to answer.
The UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report last week titled “Competition in Public Procurement”. It’s a shame that the report came out so close to […]
(Peter is sitting at his computer, shopping on Amazon. The CEO, Shirley, enters his office). Hi Peter, how’s that big project going? I’m pleased to see that you’re taking personal […]
The Manchester Christmas Market has moved from the spacious Albert Square, which is being dug up, to several different pedestrian streets around the centre. That works well in the sense […]