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.
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 […]