It is 10 years since I tore up the sustainable procurement rule book and started again. My environmental colleagues wanted me to send an incredibly complicated questionnaire to all my suppliers about their environmental practices and apply a 5 per cent weighting to all tender evaluations based on this information. (more…)
Hot on the heels of International Women’s Day last week, today’s Commonwealth Day has the theme ‘women as agents of change’.
It has been selected to encourage investment in women, to speed up social, economic and political development around the world. As the Queen says in her message today: “As governments continue to search for new ways to tackle these important challenges, let us all give a thought to the practical ways in which we, as individuals or as groups, can provide support to girls and women.” (more…)
At yesterday’s Sustainable Procurement – The New Era conference I was able to quiz a few of the experts in the subject on the challenges and issues facing buyers at the moment. (more…)
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