Category: Procurement

A procurement is designed to deliver specified results to a client. If those results are poorly understood or defined, there...

Kudos to the President of the Treasury Board for announcing that, effective October, departments must post more detailed and enlightening...

At the May 2013 Canadian Institute for Procurement and Materiel Management (CIPMM) workshop, a presenter spoke of the different characteristics...

You’re in a crunch to meet a looming deadline. A couple of your key staff are unexpectedly absent. It’s becoming...

How often have you seen buyers use years or months as a measure of experience – "...at least three years’...

As the organization in National Defence responsible for procurement and management of all materiel, the 4,500-person Materiel Group oversees a...

In my time the almost automatic response to austerity was to cut training. Cutting training saves money easily – it...

Government supply chains, in defence and elsewhere, are increasingly becoming interconnected and interdependent. They now extend beyond “department walls” through...

A year since my last article on defence procurement, positive change is lacking while negatives abound. Does anyone care?

Public Works has started a project that tries to fix an egregious difficulty in bid application for military equipment procurement.