Public Procurement
The NAO has just published a report on the Department of Health and Social Care accounts for 2021-22 and it contains a number of interesting bits of information connected with COVID-19 procurement in the UK: “ ” The reduction in value is to be expected as the prices on these items came
Public Procurement
As promised yesterday, here's the second part of the fisking of the UK Government response to the NAO report on public procurement, focused on the "claims" section of its response: “ ” This is, frankly, pure obfuscation by means of mixing up completely different things together in the
Public Procurement
Last week I mentioned here the National Audit Office Report on COVID procurement which painted the UK Government procurement practice in a terrible light. Predictably, the Government responded with a note published on the Cabinet Office website. Said note, unfortunately, constitutes a prime example of a non-response response, that is
Public Procurement
The National Audit Office has just published this morning its report about the COVID related procurement practice in the UK up to the end of July. Despite the cautious and factual language, the truth is that as the title to this entry indicates, it makes for a very grim reading.
Public Procurement
The National Audit Office (NAO) published yesterday its first report into the Government's response to the COVID-19 crisis. This report does not really focus in procurement, but has a couple of interesting points for us to follow in the near future. First, the NAO has already established that