Central government has made big strides in making its £13bn procurement spend more effective. It’s now time to stride forward even fasterThere have been a few reshuffles in the fleet-paced world of procurement. Sally Colliers appointment as Ofqual’s chief regulator came as a shock to her staff at the Crown Commercial Service (CCS),where she has been a much-liked chief executive with a reputation for strong management. Those skills are likely to be on display on Monday, when Collier faces the Commons’ public accounts committee inquiry into the government’s progress on giving more business to smaller suppliers. Malcolm Harrison, and who has been main an operational review of the CCS,and who becomes interim director, is a logical choice to remove over from Collier.
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Source: theguardian.com