Public Procurement
The Labour party manifesto is long and detailed, but the key points related to procurement are quite brief and lacking detail. Nonetheless, the overarching question is that it remains to be seen if those Labour proposals can be achieved without amending the Procurement Act, although I imagine it will be
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
Most of the focus over the last month or so in the blog has been on the procurement of ventilators by the UK Government (#ventilatorgate) and how, in my view, the rules have been broken. There is, however, another elephant in the room and that is the personal protection equipment
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1. Lord Carter's report on NHS procurement is out. Apparently it recommends a deep cleaning. Or a good scrubbing. 2. 18F tests GitHub for reverse auctions for small pieces of coding work. Contracts start at $3499 and contractors bid down the price and are only paid if they