Tube plans could put more buyers on the underground_2
17 August 2012
London Underground’s (LU) 100-strong procurement department could be expanded as a result of the public private partnership (PPP) that is set to reshape the capital’s creaking Tube system.
Three services will take over purchasing for the network’s infrastructure after the failure of Ken Livingstone, London’s mayor, to stop PPP.
Two hundred purchasing staff in the three services have been shadowing LU’s infrastructure buying in the run-up to PPP.
Once PPP goes ahead - expected to be early next year - LU’s purchasing department will only be...