The problem with public sector procurement?
There has been a great deal of coverage in the recent days in the press regarding public sector procurement and shortcomings. Hopefully the following article will draw a thread through the themes and come to a conclusion that might not be appreciated by the establishment. There are three articles that create a theme. The first relates to the hesitancy of the public sector to embrace electronic invoicing. The second reports that the Civil Service are failing to effectively contract manage and finally an article about a shortage of contract management skills in the Civil Service. In brief the article will link the articles together and conclude with a hypothesis that links these problems with the Chancellor's autumn statement making yet more savings in government departments and ask whether in light of all this where improvements will come and who will champion the improvement. The first article from the link below identifies a problem with electronic invoicing and how e...