Is the cost of procurement adding to the quality and cost of our industry, or is it narrowing down the field to become uncompetitive, where only those that can afford to take part get involved? Lengthy procurment dialogue processes are seeing the reduction in competition, as the number of companies that can afford to get involved in procrastinated negotiations is growing ever shorter, this is a situation where only the ‘lawyers’, and sometimes ‘lenders’ will win.

I see that CE Hampshire are putting on an event to discuss procurement next month, and I think it would be good to have an interesting debate before hand.

Submitted by a Club Member