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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Coldplay and their manager are suing each other – and an expensive error in a specficiation is part of the dispute.
It was tempting to write again about the HS2 rail programme given recent events and the question of whether it is going to ever get to Manchester – or indeed […]
England’s second largest city, Birmingham, is going bust, and there are allegations of dodgy procurement practices too.
I spoke recently at the UK Universities Procurement conference and as usual, had some interesting conversations around the margins of my session. In one such discussion, a sustainability person from […]
The UK’s National Health Service has for years been a “good” source of Bad Buying fraud and corruption stories. There are several reasons for that. Firstly, it is huge organisation, […]
Japanese brewer Asahi is setting up a new global procurement operation in Singapore, according to the Food Navigator Asia website. The target is to save $100 million a year from […]
Without fanfare or comment, in the middle of the holiday season, the UK government recently published the data for spend with SMEs (small and medium enterprises) for 2021/22. This covers […]
A few weeks ago, the UK National Audit Ofice issued a report titled “Competition in public procurement – lessons learned”. Unlike most of that organisation’s reports, it wasn’t looking at […]