Category Archives: Purchasing

Whitehall must deliver another 1 per cent cut next year and a further two per cent the year after as George Osborne tells underperforming departments to up their game to the level of the Department for Education and Department for Communities and Local…

Departments will be encouraged to establish centralised procurement units to carry out purchasing for public-private funded projects while government considers creating a single cross-government unit.

MP Margaret Hodge said today the government should use the ‘power of the public purse’ to encourage businesses to pay their taxes.

Paul Quinn has been appointed as chief procurement officer for the public service by the Irish government.