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.
We wrote about the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) Ajax armoured vehicle fiasco almost a year ago. Now, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), made up of politicians from all parties, […]
The new UK public procurement legislation has been laid out in a Bill now which is being discussed and revised in the House of Lords. Leaving aside political comments, most […]
Quite a few stories of procurement and supply chain failure we hear (and quite a few of those included in my Bad Buying book) have at least an element of […]
Most people see government buying as something rather dull and bureaucratic, but get it wrong and it can cost the taxpayer a fortune. So everyone should be interested in the […]
A few weeks ago now, CIPS (the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) announced the result of the consultation process on proposed governance changes. It proved to be a vindication […]