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How to align buyer/supplier goals when tendering

December 6, 2012

How do buyers and suppliers ensure the same direction, or ‘goal congruence’, which seems to be the expression of the day, in tendering for contracts?

A UK Audit Commission report a decade

ago cited six key reasons for ineffective procurement: (more…)

Fraud watchdogs

November 18, 2011

Last week, the Audit Commission released its report into the impact of fraud on local councils. Alarming as the report is – in particular the fact that procurement fraud was the fastest growing element in 2010/11 – I believe fraud by professional procurement officers is still relatively low. (more…)