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CBC Radio One Interview: Consultants, Middlemen and the Government
“Being an independent consultant can be very lucrative work. Your brains are hired for big projects and you can charge big bucks. But some consultants who work for the federal government say its not them making the big bucks . . . it’s the middlemen who hire them to do the government jobs. Now, more […]
The JLARC Review: Looking Beyond the Statistical Surface (Part 3)
April 24, 2009
The one common element, besides the irony that both the Government of Canada’s and Virginia’s programs were launched in 2001, is the paucity of either statistical or empirical proof to support the current mandates. For example Virginia’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee’s (JLARC) reference to a survey, in which 95 out of a possible […]
Synchronization Versus Compression Should Guide Government Procurement Policy (200th POST)
April 22, 2009
Government is never boring. On one hand you have the Government of Canada who despite earlier hopes has once again reverted to muscling a shared services platform down the unwilling throats of stakeholders, the majority of whom oppose the current direction. A move which is ironically being introduced at the expense of the very business […]
The JLARC Review: The Phantom Echoes of Discontent? (Part 1)
April 17, 2009
“. . . Because we are not reviewing whether eVA is successful or not, but rather how it impacts one group of users and potential users, the questions do not focus so much on the elements of success that are addressed in Yes Virginia! But try to get at small business impact” e-mail from Chief […]
SPONSOR NEWS: An Invitation from The Canadian Public Procurement Council to meet Procurement Ombudsman Shahid Minto
March 2, 2009
Airdrie, February 28, 2009 – The Canadian Public Procurement Council and the City of Airdrie are pleased to inform you that the Procurement Ombudsman, Mr. Shahid Minto, and the Deputy Procurement Ombudsman, Ms. Orianna Trometti, are planning a visit to Airdrie, Alberta. Mr. Minto will be providing a presentation and will then open the floor […]
SWaM: A Transformation in Mindset from an Adjunct Undertaking to an Economic Necessity (Report on Virginia Forum 2008)
December 3, 2008
“On August 10, 2006 Governor Timothy Kaine signed Executive Order No. 33 (2006) focusing on enhancing business opportunities for small, women-and-minority-owned (“SwaM”) businesses. It shall be the goal of the Commonwealth that 40% of its purchases be made from small businesses. This includes discretionary spending in prime contracts and subscontracts. The Department of Minority Business […]
Conference Season in Full Swing
May 27, 2008
Hello everyone. I know that it has been a week or two since my last post but I have been traveling to speak at conferences throughout the country. In fact I just returned from the annual PMAC Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. It was quite an event in which there was no shortage of […]
Further to the Barry Bonds Post . . .
March 14, 2008
The response to the Barry Bonds post through both the PI Blog as well as e-mail has been tremendous. Be sure to check out the comments that have been posted (with more to come), as they are indicative of the prevalent attitudes amongst stakeholders in terms of the Government of Canada’s Shared Services strategy. One […]
Procurement Insights 
April 29, 2009
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