Browsing All posts tagged under »Towards Tesco – improvong public sector procurement«

Supply Chain Finance (Part 3): How A Misdirected Overemphasis On Process Undermines Best Value Purchasing

March 7, 2011

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In the previous installment in this series, I talked about the fact that it has became abundantly clear that addressing the challenges that vendors face when they decide to pursue government contracts, is not something that can be solved from the supplier side of the equation. For example, and citing the AMEX study results yet […]

You can’t legislate skill sets!

November 3, 2010

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As is the case with any writer, it is never my intent to seek agreement or consensus but to stimulate intelligent and therefore meaningful discussion.  Based on the response to yesterday’s post “Is Google’s recent suit against DOI based more on an entitlement mindset or a misguided understanding of transparency?,” this objective was achieved and then […]

Washington Dispatch No. 9: Roundtable Discussion on Transparency and the Economy

June 29, 2010

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Today’s post is the final excerpt in the series from the Transparency in Government Procurement white paper that has run on both the Procurement Insights Blog, as well as the Official Event Blog Essential Connections. As the lead-up to the release of the white paper later this week, we examined the observations and revelations from […]