The Welsh Assembly has defended its procurement practices for the construction of the new assembly building after damning criticism by the Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP), which designed the building.
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Government offices have failed to meet targets for prompt payments to suppliers for the second year running and their record has got worse, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Purchasers could have to deal with an increase in outsourcing after Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, announced a 1 per cent rise in national insurance (NI) contributions in last week’s budget.
The oil and gas industry has moved into the second phase of its business-to-business mentoring scheme to improve supply chain relationships.
26 June 2002
Commonwealth Institute, London
Commonwealth Institute, London
A leading UK defence and aerospace contractor is looking to deal directly with more than 500 current and potential suppliers.
The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (Pasa) has sent letters to all trusts asking for volunteers to set up six pilot schemes for regional purchasing consortia.
Leicester City Council is to set up a corporate procurement team after an Audit Commission report branded its purchasing practices inconsistent and unlikely to improve.
Many of the business-to-business trading exchanges that have failed in the past year have done so because they destroyed supply chain relationships by focusing only on driving down prices, according to the executive chairman of Deutsche Telekom UK.
Business activity on both sides of the Atlantic has suffered in the month after the US terrorist attacks, with the services sector particularly badly hit, according to the latest figures.