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.
Last week, Gareth Davies, head of the UK’s National Audit Office, gave a speech to members of parliament and civil servants. He drew on the experience of NAO in carrying […]
Every organisation is vulnerable to fraud and corruption. You shoudl think about where the vulnerabilities lie – before the fraudsters do!
Reports in the Guardian last week suggested that Michelle Mone, business woman and member of the British House of Lords, benefited directly from PPE contracts which the government awarded during […]
Conflict of interest in procurement can occur in various ways and via various players in the process – and can be a minor issue or lead to serious corruption.
We write pretty regularly about public sector procurement disasters, probably more than we cover private sector failures. When I was researching and writing the Bad Buying book, I found it […]