The Bad Buying Blog
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Imagine you are a Head of Procurement. Workload is growing and you are suffering from staff shortages. Your team can’t keep up. So you go to your boss with a […]
The UK’s National Audit Office recently refused to sign-off the accounts of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) for 2021-22. “A lack of sufficient, appropriate audit evidence and […]
Some of our leading politicians would not be employable as business executives given their ethical values and behaviours.
We started the New Year with an expensive error made in UK government procurement. Atos, the large French technology firm, were paid £25 million after the firm complained about the […]
As we enter 2023, what do the prospects for Bad Buying look like? No doubt, we will continue to see regular procurement and contract related fraud and corruption. It will […]