Team building
13 September 2012
At the core of smart procurement is the concept of integrated project teams. Peter Varley examines how they will work to cut cost and time
Smart procurement may be the bones of the Ministry of Defence’s attack on efficiency, but the flesh is the implementation of integrated project teams (IPTs). These aim to cut through the bureaucracy and complex structure of major projects and represent the most tangible evidence of change in procurement: some 150 teams are expected to be up and running within a year...