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Putting the weight in the right place
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A procurement is designed to deliver specified results to a client. If those results are poorly understood or defined, there...
When process trumps principle
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Kudos to the President of the Treasury Board for announcing that, effective October, departments must post more detailed and enlightening...
Typewriters to tablets to tomorrow
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At the May 2013 Canadian Institute for Procurement and Materiel Management (CIPMM) workshop, a presenter spoke of the different characteristics...
Considering a sole-source contract? Here are some sound management practices
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You’re in a crunch to meet a looming deadline. A couple of your key staff are unexpectedly absent. It’s becoming...
What’s in a year’s worth of experience?
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How often have you seen buyers use years or months as a measure of experience – "...at least three years’...
A different dynamic: Executive engagement on defence procurement
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As the organization in National Defence responsible for procurement and management of all materiel, the 4,500-person Materiel Group oversees a...
Is professional development suffering from austerity?
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In my time the almost automatic response to austerity was to cut training. Cutting training saves money easily – it...
A roadmap for smarter supply chains
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Government supply chains, in defence and elsewhere, are increasingly becoming interconnected and interdependent. They now extend beyond “department walls” through...
Defence procurement: Does anyone care?
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A year since my last article on defence procurement, positive change is lacking while negatives abound. Does anyone care?
Minor paperwork problems may no longer cause bid rejection
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Public Works has started a project that tries to fix an egregious difficulty in bid application for military equipment procurement.