Creating a gold standard in public procurement
By Keith Heard This will be a defining year for public sector frameworks and their partners to deliver value for money, says NACF’s Keith Heard In my lifetime, the relationship between the public sector and its construction partners has perhaps never been under more scrutiny nor as essential to the health of the UK economy than during the covid-19 crisis. We have seen over the past 12 months not only the importance of the public sector in keeping the economy moving through sustained infrastructure investment but, equally, the level of public interest attached to its purchasing power. Th...