Monthly Archives: August 2011

This assignment was prompted by a serious safety incident involving loss of life. There was no uniform approach to procurement, with ‘departments’ adopting their own practices. Our research included the procurement of signaling, environmental, health & safety, security, major projects, contractual risk, pricing decisions, management of disputes and levels of financial authority for making contractual […]

Our client was a well known engineering group who had never checked the systems and procedures to deal with scrap disposal. It rapidly became apparent that malpractice existed, scrap was not segregated, the market price was not monitored, in some cases the Contractor was paid to remove the scrap! The Contractor’s weighbridge data was accepted […]

This assignment was undertaken for an off-shore service organisation. There was no purchasing involvement in the award of any facilities management contracts. No policies, approved systems or Corporate procedures existed, despite internal audits having taken place. A complete review was undertaken which revealed maintenance payments being paid for buildings and assets that no longer existed, […]