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Historic culture can lead to Public Sector Procurement fraud – 5 tips for reducing fraud

The allegiances formed during South Africa’s troubled political history are still influencing the country’s supply chain processes. This was one of the issues highlighted during a panel discussion on SCM fraud prevention at SmartProcurement’s 2009 Public Sector Supply Chain Management Summit. A historic culture of honouring, through business activities, the camaraderie formed during the country’s […]

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Public Sector SCM Summit played host to 10 HDI students

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In a bid to promote experiential learning, and open up our conferences to interns / learners and trainees SmartProcurement’s Public Sector Supply Chain Management Summit and Workshop played host to members of the Logistics Graduates of South Africa, based at the Vaal Technikon (LGSA). LGSA student members with Commerce Edge Sales Director Margaret Richings Attendance

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Possible Government tenders workshops in the rest of SA

Professional Development, Public Sector Procurement, Tender Management / Editor

The SmartProcurement ‘Tenders in Government’ Technical Workshop met with such a positive response that this niche P & SM online media organisation is planning to take the one-day programme country-wide, for the benefit of SCM practitioners on the procure and supply side. A total of 65 delegates attended the hands-on workshop on the third

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Larger fiscal deficits call for stricter compliance to government tender guidelines

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There is a greater need for public sector tenders to be more strictly awarded according to government’s guidelines. The outcome of tender awards influenced by government officials with stakes in corporate companies, bribery and financial mismanagement is not just that incompetent people receive a contract, but also the waste of government’s steadily shrinking pockets. Professor

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Strategic sourcing offers the public sector a guiding hand

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Strategic sourcing has become best practice in procurement management and makes good business sense for meeting the State’s ongoing commitment to taxpayers, Estelle van Rooyen, Director of Compliance, Contract Management in Specialist Functions for National Treasury, told SmartProcurement. Strategic sourcing initiatives have been persued in the private sector for many years, and recently the public

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Stopping the stealing in the Public Sector

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Last week the media ran scathing reports confirming what many government procurement professionals have been telling, SmartProcurement in private: ” That so called public servants abuse public funds to enrich themselves, bypassing or undermining procurement processes to fund their pursuits. That, senior individuals, use their political connections or seniority to pose veiled threats to SCM

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Peer Reviewed: The law of Government Procurement in South Africa

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In SmartProcurement’s May Newsletter, we discussed the Public Procurement Law Review’s opinions on Phoebe Bolton’s new legal work ‘The Law of Government Procurement in South Africa’. This month, SmartProcurement publishes a review of the book by Mr Isac Smith, director Supply Chain Management at the Western Cape Department of Health. ‘The Law of Government Procurement

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Public Sector Supply Chains helping to keeping economy afloat

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The IPSA/ CIPS Pan African Conference, held at Emperors Palace on 26th and 27th May, attests to the significant role that public sector supply chains are playing in ensuring the resilience of the South African economy against the worst effects of the present global downturn. In particular, the State supply chain management machine is managing

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New work provides easy access to government’s procurement policies

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“A must-read for anyone who is pursuing a professional career in Procurement & Supply Management!” Owing to the fragmented regime governing public procurement in South Africa, it is exceedingly difficult to form a coherent view of the legal regime of government contracting. Professor Phoebe Bolton’s book, The Law of Government Procurement in South Africa, provides

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Procurement visibility needed at compulsive buyer: UK National Health Service (NHS)

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In the United Kingdom (UK) Government’s search for budget balancing savings of tens of £ billions annually, as led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, attention is increasingly directed to the more than £160 billion that the public sector reportedly spent on the procurement of goods and services from third party suppliers (half of which is

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