‘We spend how much?’ is a cry I have often heard from a senior executive the first time he or she finds out the true extent of his or her company’s third-party expenditure. Years ago, I asked the group finance director of a leading UK financial services company how much his organization spent with suppliers. He said that he didn’t know but that it wasn’t much because, ‘we donâ…
This book has been written in order to contribute to the debate about best practice in construction procurement. At the outset it should be made plain that the authors do not subscribe to the view that there is any such thing as best practice. The main argument in this book is that there can never be a best practice, only better practice, in construction procurement. The reason for arrivi…