procurement

Was NI Water rolling back poor departmental compliance rates?

Mick Fealty on March 7, 2011, 11:39 am

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The PAC’s report into Northern Ireland Water has to be one of the most comprehensive pieces of research, not only into a publicly owned utility, but into an insider government culture that brooks no dissent and treats whistleblowers with contempt. There is more than enough to keep Slugger going for the next fortnight, and yet beyond this excellent summation of the story by Sam McBride at the News Letter, the press have, by and large, let it slide. However, as …

Political Innovation 2: The politics of buying things

Paul Evans on September 8, 2010, 12:00 pm

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This is a guest cross-post by Dominic Campbell – originally posted on the Political Innovation site here: Well, you wouldn’t still be reading had I called it the politics of procurement now would you? (no, stop – don’t go!). No-one who engages with government procurement comes away impressed with it. It’s a process that wastes £billions and rewards process over outcomes. Yet we all know that, deep down, it’s a symptom of a political problem. It is a system set …

NI Water: Now that £28 million reduces to £550k…

Mick Fealty on September 6, 2010, 11:27 am

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There are a number of issues worth picking up in the wake of the Minister’s performance at the Regional Development Committee. First, that figure of £28 million we’ve talked about before. We are greatly aided here by the fact that the contract audit upon which the IRT based it’s own report has now been put into the public domain by Nevin at the NALIL blog. The bad news for the so-called independent IRT is that a depth analysis utterly scuppers their view …