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What do you prefer - Sclerotic or Agile Procurement?

Procurement Innovation
This is a series of two articles

• The first – What do you prefer – Sclerotic or Agile Procurement?

• The second – Delivering Agile Procurement – Making public procurement faster, fairer, local, compliant and robust.

What do you prefer - Sclerotic or Agile Procurement?
You may remember the award winning series of British Heart Foundation adverts which showed cholesterol blocked arteries and how slow and sluggish they are. In many people’s views, that’s just like much of the public procurement which is being conducted currently. And we know what happens if you ignore sclerosis, it kills you. Sclerotic Public procurement is in danger of killing the beast for a range of reasons and practice needs to be urgently reformed. This is the first of a series of 2 articles which highlight the many concerns about the interpretation of the EU Procurement Directives and point the way to solutions which have been ignored. For more see pdf file and become part of the debate go to the forum

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