Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Essential Functions of the Job: Recommends, implements and maintains City purchasing systems for maximum efficiency and to achieve optimum life-cycle cost for all goods and services purchased. Oversees the analysis of cost, performance, quality, service and delivery.

Purchasing 100

Purchasing Management Warehouse E-procurement 100

Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Without competitive bidding, prices go up, and the quality of goods and services languishes. When competition is weak, government departments risk procuring poor-quality tenders, leading to cost overruns, project delays, or failed outcomes. Robust competition in public procurement can bring these promising outcomes.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Framework Agreement 52

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Tender execution A public buyer seeking to use procurement as a tool of digital regulation could do so through the two main decisions of tenderer selection and tender evaluation. This indicates that existing flexible mechanisms of market engagement can be a source of regulatory risk, rather than a useful set of regulatory tools.

Procurement 52

Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52