On the long march to improvement
13 September 2012
The Ministry of Defence’s bold decision to use e-procurement for 90 per cent of purchases shouldn’t hide the need for the department to look at its own practices, says Robin Parker
When a purchaser’s supply chain leads to the war zones of Kosovo and Afghanistan, they have every right to consider the exact price of nuts and bolts a secondary concern.
Yet even with that proviso, the holes discovered recently in the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) inventory data are staggering.
The National Audit Office (NAO) found that the ministry not...