OGC director vows to keep using smaller suppliers
28 August 2012
A senior economic adviser to the UK government has rejected claims that small and medium-sized companies are often badly run and said the government will continue encouraging them to bid for public-sector contracts.
Martin Sykes, executive director at the Office of Government Commerce, said there was no evidence in two pilot projects that SMEs were poorly audited.
He also rejected criticism that some SMEs falsely claimed to be run by women in order to win favour with local authorities and government agencies.
Sykes told 170 academics and purchasing professionals at...