Procedures for putting out tenders
28 August 2012
Q: I am the finance director of an international non-profit educational organisation. At present, although some of our larger purchases - which include printing and cleaning - are put out to tender, we do not have any standard procedure for doing this. Ho
A: Rob Garvey, purchasing director at the University of Bristol, writes: There was an article recently in the “New Scientist” reporting on a debate at the Royal Institution. The subject was about how awful our lives would be if the “precautionary principle” had prevailed. Some participants suggested there would have been “no heart surgery, antibiotics or airplanes”....