When an invitation to take afternoon tea at the home of the Finnish Ambassador in London dropped through the letterbox, I found it hard to turn down.
Scotland’s deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon said faced with a national budget reduction following Whitehall’s spending review, the scope of procurement reform in the country needed to be extended to untapped areas.
In the opening column to the autumn issue of the Supply Management business travel supplement, Rebecca Ellinor says a “do as I do” approach needs to be adopted
After the spending review we do not yet have the answer to the question that worries public sector buyers most – the number of job losses. And it is likely to be a month before we get a clearer picture.
Although some blisteringly good deals exist in the public sector, we never hear of them because good deals don’t make good headlines.
At the time of writing I remain in not exactly blissful ignorance about spending cuts. But this is, as I say, only an advantage of sorts.
[home-truths100pxw] Don’t let waste go to waste. That’s the approach being adopted by residents in Didcot, UK, where a pilot project is turning their own human waste into energy.
Despite the spending review, Andy Davies can see the continued benefits of Framework Agreements
In the latest excerpt from his MBA diary Chris Atkins wonders if the corporate world is doing enough to improve its reputation on sustainability.
Whatever the benefits, greater standardisation is bound to lead to more box-ticking, less flexibility and perhaps even greater inaccessibility
