News, 23 August 2007
Features
Featured articles from the current issue
Top flight purchasing
Most of us use airlines for business or holidays, but how do they keep us on the move - what do they buy and what are the challenges? Barbara Cockburn explores the issue
Cover feature, 23 August 2007
Improve your mileage
Most organisations could make substantial savings on vehicle and transport costs, as Graham Hill reveals
Features, 23 August 2007
Lost in translation
The public sector spends millions on translation services every year. Steve Holland explains how savings can be made
Features, 23 August 2007
Public speaking
A host of expert speakers will share their knowledge at the CIPS/SM public sector procurement conference. Rebecca Ellinor describes what they will bring to the event
Features, 23 August 2007
The new Euro stars
The past three years have seen buyers from Eastern Europe coming into the UK market. But are we fully utilising this talent, asks Jane Simms
Cover feature, 2 August 2007
Opinion
Viewpoint
And what do you do?
It's worst when I'm at a dinner party with people I don't know. They'll be in medicine, marketing or merchant banking and I know that sooner or later they're going to ask me.
Soapbox, 23 August 2007
Adviser
Well-intentioned words
We are doing a lot of work with local SMEs and are identifying how we can use social/community benefit clauses in contracts. Do you have examples of the exact wording we can use in public sector contracts?
Adviser, 23 August 2007
Regulars
Reviews
Working Abroad - The Complete Guide to Overseas Employment
Jonathan Reuvid Kogan Page £12.99 3/5
Reviews, 23 August 2007
Global Outsourcing Strategies
Edited by Peter Barrar & Roxane Gervais Gower £75 3/5
Reviews, 23 August 2007
Update
Prepare for 'EuroSox'
Paul Carter Hemlin explains how the revision to the European 8th Directive on Company Law is likely to affect purchasers, as firms tighten up their corporate governance systems
Law update, 23 August 2007
Court report
John F Hunt Demolition Ltd v ASME Engineering Ltd
Court report, 23 August 2007
First person
Ways to fill the August lull
Put this magazine down at once and get on with your work. What? You call that work? Well, I suppose in this era of the "knowledge economy" hoovering up information wherever you find it must count as constructive effort of some sort.
First person, 23 August 2007
Home truths
Gears for fears
After showcasing some of readers' self-proclaimed 'best cars in procurement', Home Truths has received entries to its follow-up competition: 'crummiest car'.
Home truths, 23 August 2007
The government hopes to overcome past problems experienced by largescale IT projects by selecting not one, but several, potential ID card scheme suppliers. It was revealed in this month's OJEU notice that the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has decided to set up a framework agreement for the £2 billion venture to provide biometric support, passport replacement, ID cards and more.
