Purchasing chief prepares for Prison Service reforms
28 August 2012
The Prison Service is to update its entire purchasing operation as part of a major reorganisation of its administration.
Vincent Godfrey, the new head of procurement, said the “Phoenix Project” is also designed to gain efficiencies in finance and human resources.
Phoenix is the service’s response to chancellor Gordon Brown’s spending review, which called for £21.5 billion of efficiency gains by government departments and agencies.
Savings on the £900 million-a-year...