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Procurement policies are freezing out many consultants

Atholl Noon, Director, Colin Buchanan, London
25 March 2011
 

As a director of an SME company in transport, it was refreshing to read the story ‘DfT favouring big consultancies’ and associated Viewpoint . I too believe that current procurement processes generally (not just the DfT) are disadvantaging SMEs.

Addressing the Department for Business Innovation and Skills’ summit for small business in 2010, Francis Maude of the Cabinet Office said: “I would like to see more Government business go to SMEs, not just in sub-contracts where...

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