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Public procurement is legally accountable for its decisions. Depending on the value of the specific purchase it will be subject to EU Procurement Directives. The existing Directives, harking back to 2006, could not be deemed to be a robust solution to effective procurement. The new Directives are complex, unproven and laden with potential bureaucracy. There […]

Here at Brian Farrington (one of the world’s first procurement consultancies :) ) we’ve been thinking about the International Festival for Business and how to make it truly a valuable event for visitors and buyers. Our focus is buying, and we thought asking the following three questions would be helpful to you when meeting potential suppliers, vendors contractors […]

No doubt you’ll have had a zillion notifications that the International Festival for Business kicks off next month and we’ve put a programme together for a what IFB2014 are calling “a different type of business trip” – hope you can save the dates? In developing our programme we gave a lot of thought about *who* exactly would be interested in our […]

Authoritative comment is vital when studying any area of law. Brian Farrington Ltd have extensively researched the broad subject of bonds. Here we provide a refresher on Performance Bonds. A requirement of a performance bond is not an uncommon occurrence on large projects and construction projects. Procurement specialists are usually presented with wording for the bond […]

The International Festival for Business is taking place in Liverpool this summer aiming to accelerate UK economic growth with an ambitious programme of global business events running throughout July 2014. Great, say you (with weary cynicism)! However…as we have seen recently, two thirds of buyers expect a pay rise in 2014. How are you going to justify […]

How do Buyers work with suppliers and contractors to deliver social value and support achieving wider social, economic and environmental outcomes? The Public Services (Social Value Act) was passed at the end of February 2012. Social value is about maximising the impact of public expenditure. Social value considers more than just the financial transaction. It […]

The economic climate dictates that, it is time for people engaging and managing suppliers re-examine their approach to the use of price indexation formulae. Surely there’s a smarter way to deal with price? Our research shows that in the UK there is an extensive use of the Retail Price Index (RPI) and Consumer Price Index […]