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.
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 […]