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Santa Clara KPMG Expenditure Raises Red Flags

March 12, 2017

Back in June of last year, I wrote a post regarding Santa Clara’s procurement practice titled “I Have Waited Nearly 10 Years For This To Happen . . . The Santa Clara Story“. In that article, I drew comparisons between Virginia’s highly successful eVA program and the program that had been successfully implemented by the County. […]

Audit tendering process will force procurement professionals to go beyond traditional boundaries by Jon Hansen

January 22, 2015

Traditionally I have not been a fan of press releases. This of course should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following this blog for any length of time. Generally speaking, press or news (and I use the word “news” loosely here) releases, are little more than self-serving flatulations of meaningless proclamations, designed to […]

Assimilating Innovation (Part 1 of 3): Why Coupa’s new alliance with KPMG may be the worst (or best) of times by Jon Hansen

April 10, 2013

Editors NOTE: It wasn’t that long ago that Coupa used to applaud my articles for the veracity of my research and the perspectives that I delivered regarding their growing presence in the market. In fact I wrote a series of guest posts for the Coupa Cabana blog in which they informed me that the readership […]

Relationship Contracting Expert: Questionnaire on CF-18 Hornet replacement dubious at best by Jon Hansen

March 5, 2013

In relation to the so called KPMG framework, there is nothing that one couldn’t find readily available in a managerial or financial accounting academic text book. As a tax payer, I hope I didn’t pay much for it and frankly I am not surprised by TBS falling for it because it supports current TBS framework […]

Latest Government of Canada Procurement Scandal Belies the Very Principles Associated with Effective Purchasing Practices

February 3, 2010

In the opening comments from a recent segment of the PI Window on Business Show in which I had interviewed government contracting expert and author Mark Amtower, I had made reference to the famous Louis Pasteur quote that “Chance favors the prepared mind.” I would of course have to admit that I found myself reflecting […]