Horizon – Robert Colvile Investigates and Fujitsu Owns Up
Robert Colville traces the history of the Horizon software in the Times and quotes from the Bad Buying book!
Entries by Peter Smith
Horizon Scandal – Post Office and Fujitsu Should Be Ashamed of Themselves
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 […]
Mone Moans, But Still PPE Questions to be Answered
The legal case against Medpro for supplying allegedly dodgy PPE continues – there are some interesting questions which the government side will need to answer.
Competition in Public Procurement – Thoughts on the PAC Report
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 […]
A Bad Buying Play in One Act
(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 […]
My Sad Story of Sausage-Related Buyer’s Remorse
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 […]
Sheffield Container Park Failure – Classic Bad Buying
Sheffield Council has been dysfunctional for some time, and will always be remembered as the council that decided thousands of mature trees would be destroyed in order to make pavements […]
US Government Takes Down Procurement Fraudster
This story from the Homeland Security Today website dates from a couple of months ago, but it is an interesting procurement fraud case, as it does not involve any internal […]
Babylon’s Burning… the Story of the Failed “AI” Health App
The Sunday Times has really got into its investigations recently, and after its excellent expose of the UK’s HS2 rail programme, last week it looked at another issue with a […]
We Need a Review of HS2
Last week the Sunday Times ran an expose of the UK’s HS2 rail project. The programme is being severely curtailed now due to massive over spending against the budget. Over […]