However, it's not always plain sailing when it comes to public buildings; lurking in the background is the spectre of public procurement rules and lengthy decision-making processes. The EU's Energy ...

Public sector procurement stands at a crossroads ... they have little bandwidth for valuable market analysis and building stronger supplier relationships. Basic compliance checks and invoice ...

2. Such reforms are critical to building strong public procurement systems that are strategic enablers of economic growth and social impact. They are also critical steps to ensure the public ...

The Treasury has promised hundreds of billions over the next decade for projects such as roads, railways and homes.

Firms seeking work on major infrastructure schemes will need to set out plans to boost local jobs and skills under a ...

The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) says it is committed to entrenching transparency, accountability, and professionalism ...

For years, the public procurement process has been undermined by inefficiencies, opaqueness and in some cases, misuse of ...

As such, capacity-building is critical to improving this process. Some of the city officials interviewed for this paper indicated that their existing procurement practices have already undergone ...

Public procurement alone accounts for an average ... not just ethical ideals but strategic differentiators. Relationship-building is no longer a soft skill but a core driver of risk mitigation ...