A year after COVID-19 sent shock waves through the world’s supply chains, creating the most significant global disruptions in history. The pandemic served as an unfortunate wake-up call for companies ...

Currently it is estimated that there is an average 10 per cent difference in prices for the same item sourced by hospitals across the UK, and in many cases the difference is far higher. With an ...

At the outset of the Covid pandemic, government was granted extraordinary powers by parliament and made extensive use of emergency procurement regulations to award contracts for goods and services ...

Recognizing the importance of strategic procurement, Dutch chemical company Royal DSM – a global, purpose-led leader in health and nutrition, applying bioscience to improve the health of people, ...

There’s been much talk of federal spending this year. Two of us have written on the flow of federal resources, and how locals prepare for major shifts. As we have noted, a critical part of federal ...

Over the past several years, the Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program and the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University have dedicated countless hours to one central goal: using the ...

Not surprisingly, up until now lean procurement has heavily focused on cost as it is a significant percentage of a company’s revenue (often ranging from 50% to 70% of sales) and to some degree on ...

It’s been described as the worst deal Queensland ever negotiated — an initiative that started out looking for ways to fix IT delivery to government agencies, and ended up in a failed payroll project ...

In February, Governing, sister publication to Government Technology, released a report ranking 39 states based on their procurement policies. They were ranked in 10 categories, including their use of ...

Paul Finch’s Letter from London: The London 2012 Olympic delivery bodies absolutely did not rely on contractors to tell them who the architects should be The understandable fuss about marketing ...