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Ken Cole

Ken Cole has worked in senior positions in both the public and private sectors and was one of the founding Directors of SPS in 2001. He recently completed a three year secondment as Director of the London Centre of Excellence. Ken has thrilled many public and private audiences with his incisive analysis, robust delivery and his belief in 'telling it as it is'. His blog is a regular commentary of the improvement and efficiency agenda.


Make sure you pay a frequent visit to find out Ken's latest thoughts on the workings of government, the latest policy initiatives and much more...

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Playing the Pre-Qualification Game

08/03/2010

The Times recently ran a story entitled ‘big contractors squeeze out the little man’ (6th February 2010, page 58). It was about construction

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The Tide is Turning

19/02/2010

The tsunami of expenditure reductions, often reaching over 20% of current budgets is rapidly approaching. Levels such as this cannot be met by statistical contortions and a healthy dose of smoke and mirrors

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Where there's a will there's a way!!

05/10/2009

Good news coming my way is that OGC is setting up a special unit dedicated to promoting e-Auctions across the UK public sector. Some of the recent e-

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Starting the Savings Debate

31/07/2009

Getting More for Less by Jamie Bartlett was launched at a recent Demos event.

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High Court Judgement Goes Against LAML

10/06/2009

The outcome of the LAML Appeal is now know and can be downloaded here.

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For Savings and not Social Engineering

19/05/2009

Why exactly did you get involved in procurement? Putting aside those who couldn't find anything better to do with themselves you would hope that things like deal management, value for money...

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Plan Today - Save Tomorrow

20/04/2009

For those of you that have not been following the progression of the global financial meltdown over the last six months,

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The Art of the Possible

01/04/2009

Yesterday was one of the largest, if not the largest, public sector e-auction ever held

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Realism on Roots

26/02/2009

It is finally in the public domain, the Roots Review of English local government procurement

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Politicians and Procurement don't mix

14/01/2009

Problems are usually not far away when politicians devote their energies to formulating procurement policy

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