What is a buyer’s ideal holiday read?

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General by Paul Snell

Awards and competitions encourage supplier innovation – but what do buyers make of them?

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Supply chain by Sarah Campbell

Long-term behavioural change requires a common language, understanding and systems. Sustainable procurement has no such common language, but one is on the way.

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Sustainability by Shaun McCarthy

The Californian senate has approved a bill that will require bidders for contracts on a new high-speed rail line to disclose their involvement in the holocaust. Why now?

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General by Paul Snell

Road markings contractors never seem to get it right: if they haven’t written ‘school’ as ‘shool’ they’ve painted over a dead hedgehog. But it’s nice to see one council sticking up for its supplier for a change.

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SRM by Sarah Campbell

The UK government seems to be asking two organisations to do the same job – drumming up business for defence manufacturers. That’s hardly an efficient way to go about it.

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Public sector, Purchasing by Isabel Palmer

Is UK public sector procurement about to experience a brain drain…if this is, in fact, not already happening?

I’m referring, of course, to the public sector pay freeze the government is instituting, as well as the mass redundancies which are about to take place.

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Careers, Public sector, Purchasing by Rebecca Ellinor

If you don’t have a good reason, don’t bother – but be prepared to go out of business.

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Sustainability by Shaun McCarthy

The cost of foodstuffs and other basic commodities looks to be on the rise.

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Purchasing, Risk & continuity by Paul Snell

What do female senior procurement professionals talk about when they get together?

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General by Angeline Albert