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NPM’s guiding principles for creating a “Slim” State: What Marshall, Tipple and Rotor should have known?
I am certain that many of us who have tracked the ongoing saga of the Government of Canada’s Way Forward initiative over the years has undoubtedly read Kathryn May’s article regarding former PWGSC Deputy Minister David Marshall’s testimony at the Federal Labor Relations Board Hearing regarding the dismissal of Douglas Tipple and David Rotor (Ottawa Citizen, […]
If you want to make a ‘private sector’ approach work for public procurement – start small by Jon Hansen
October 4, 2014
Editor’s Note: The following is the article I wrote that appeared in the most recent edition of IACCM’s Contracting Excellence ezine regarding the viability of the public sector adopting private sector procurement practices. Check out the IACCM website to access other interesting articles and insights. Having written extensively about the New Public Management or NPM mind-set […]
Does the UK’s new Crown Commercial Service represent the future of public sector procurement? by Jon Hansen
July 24, 2013
A corporate-style overhaul of the way the government buys up to £12bn of goods and services will be announced today as ministers try to use the spur of austerity to change the way Whitehall operates and make savings of around £1bn a year. from the July 23rd, 2013 Financial Times article Business-style agency to run […]
The Privatization of the UK Government? by Jon Hansen
June 10, 2013
In the most recent post in the Procurement Insights EU blog, Colin Cram discusses the recent Lord Browne Report on non-executive directors working with the UK government. For those who may be unfamiliar with the term, non-executives are drawn from numerous industry sectors (see graphic below) to provide expertise for an annual fee of roughly […]
Losing Vendor Litigation (Part 4): Belt with suspenders purchasing
August 11, 2011
You may very well be right but . . . we followed the proper bid procedure so that is all that matters. Executive Director, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat e-mail response to question regarding unrealistic Way Forward savings forecast I have on many an occasion written about the above referenced e-mail […]
Did Sir Philip Green Get It Right?
October 16, 2010
Below is the actual review prepared by Sir Philip Green regarding the inefficiencies of the UK government’s procurement policies and practices. Please note that it also includes a brief introduction video after the first slide. While we all take the time to review and digest the findings of Sir Philip, especially his assertion that “The […]
IACCM CEO Cummins discusses government waste due to poor contract management
October 14, 2010
Inefficiencies in public spending are a result of the lack of defined practices for managing supply contracts and relationships, according to IACCM, a leading authority on contract and commercial management. The recent review of UK public finances by Sir Philip Green highlighted what the Topshop owner called ‘shocking’ spending processes, claiming that no business could […]
A Revenue Positive Business Model in Public Sector Purchasing (Part 1)
February 16, 2010
The core “philosophy” behind the New Public Management or “NPM” concept (which has been part of the government lexicon since the 1980s), is the belief that a “market orientation in the public sector will lead to greater cost-efficiency for governments, without having negative side effects on other objectives and considerations.” While there may be merit […]
Making local government more workable through shared services
May 14, 2009
In this era of “permanent fiscal crisis,” local governments have no choice but to seek out new and better ways of providing the services citizen’s demand within the constraint of available resources. (1) This may explain why nearly twice as many (58 percent to 31 percent) local governments in 2002 as in 1992 contemplated alternative […]
Procurement Insights 
October 6, 2007
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