Monthly Archives: July 2012

Today’s risk briefing is prompted by a report on a Performance Audit of San Bernadino International Airport Operations, Development and Construction Activities. The report is dated June 6, 2011. It highlights what can happen in the absence of robust due diligence and lack of robust financial controls. The report concludes that SBIAA has not established […]

Today’s risk is prompted by an articles ‘BBC saves money by giving staff a chauffeur – driven car’, see Sunday Mail 22nd July 2012. It reported, ‘The BBC is spending an estimated £130,000 over two years on a chauffeur-driven car rejected by its chairman Lord Patten because it would ‘incur costs’ to terminate the contract’. […]

  We are one of the world’s longest established consultants with particular strengths in Procurement Risk Management. The ‘How does procurement contribute to the Corporate Risk Register’ survey is a good and useful piece of work, and the research phase is launched here. With procurement risk high on the agenda (groan – not another desperate attempt […]

The most extreme example of not knowing who is on a site occurred  at a client organisation. Two men arrived at a reception. They were dressed in white coats and told the receptionist they had come to take away the computers for repair. Unbelievably they were given unchallenged access! They took away the computers – […]

Risks inevitably arise when the responses to tender questions are not read carefully. Some ITT responses can be hundreds of pages.The evaluators will probably have lost the will to live long before the end. Superficially, avoiding detail is likely to come back to bite you. There are some gifted Tender writers who can give a […]

G4S – Olympic Security Join us at a fictitious review of the security contract  outcome for the 2012 London Olympics. Q. Why wasn’t the Minister informed about the problems now known? A. Well, to be frank, who wants  to give a Minister bad news? It could threaten our future career and possible  honours award. Q. […]

This Round Table event, under Chatham House Rules, was attended by senior  representatives from major public and private sector organisations and the  academic sector. The event was facilitated by Brian Farrington Limited (BFL). The first focus was on risk management in procurement and  supply chain and an explanation of BFL’s new service product Procurisk®. It was […]