Monthly Archives: July 2013

The purpose of Brian Farrington training input is to enable and equip participants to enhance their corporate performance. What is your ambition for your people who engage with suppliers? Our ‘grey haired’ resource is part of the toolkit of leading organisations, including 33 of the current FTSE100. We instil, reliably and effectively, what it has taken […]

Why Client Confidentiality is Important to you – and Brian Farrington Your external consultants and training resource provision impacts on the policies, processes, governance and key stakeholders of your organisation. Working with client’s on high-value, high-risk projects often gives controlled access to their commercial secrets, which is why Brian Farrington Ltd respect and uphold confidentiality […]

Seven factors of supply chain failure from Airmic: Procurement Risk? The Airmic – who are the leading association for risk management and insurance specialists – exposition on supply chain failures (see the Supply Management article from Airmic’s Paul Hopkin here) is the tip of a very large iceberg. There cannot be any argument with the […]

Communicaid Group Ltd v European Commission [2013] EUECJ T-4/13 Is your procurement process going to be featured in Court?  Appeals against contract awards continue unabated. This specifically relates to public sector procurements. A recent case heard in the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Case T-4/13 R was Communicaid Group Ltd v European Commission. […]

What is the confidence level that tenders will be robustly evaluated? £ billions per annum is expended by private sector organisations, preparing tenders for clients in the public and private sectors. The processes used in the private sector are often steeped in mystery. There is no published evaluation criteria, nor any detailed feedback at the […]

What are the CCG’s doing about value? The ill-informed fail to recognise that occasions arise where there is no precedence for a solution. Introduction One special challenge facing Clinical Commissioning Groups right now (June 2013) is the policy being ‘driven’ by people from the healthcare sector. Defining value for money includes facets of clinical, financial […]

Who is supporting you to achieve your business goals? As a procurement coach, it’s all about communication, influencing and delivering your business goals through facilitation, coaching & development.  Interestingly, being  procurement specialists really does help you with business development success. We explain below our approach to mentoring and detail specifically what we would propose to achieve […]