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13 September 2012
Sam Tulip describes how Caerphilly Council solved the problem of a system that was neither Y2K-compliant nor up to its new demands as a unitary authority in one fell swoop
Caerphilly County Borough Council is one of the unitary authorities set up in the partial local government reorganisation of 1996 to combine the functions of district and county councils. The authority’s procurement services organisation, led by head of procurement Andrew Maisey, has 26 staff, four separate warehouses that turn over £1.7 million a year, and a...