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Industry Watch – Procurement Models – How a Biased Report is Casting a Negative Light on a Perfectly Viable Procurement Model that Ensures Only The Most Qualified Contractors Bid Work.
These characterizations and the terms used to describe them, show a fundamental ignorance about these procurement concepts and how they work.
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Industry Watch – Social Procurement – How Political Do-Goodery Is Affecting Procurement And What Procurement Professionals Need to Do About It.
A City Administrator in Calgary is pushing forward a recommendation that the City adopt social concerns as part of their procurement system.
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ProcureCon 2020 – I’m Speaking – Why This Year’s ProcureCon Facilities Conference Will be Great!
This year’s conference seems to be the most comprehensive event yet.
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Industry Watch – Late Payments – How the Construction Industry is Working to Mitigate the Impact of Late Payments and What Owners Need to be Leery of.
The problem has been building for a long time and it all came to a head in January 2018 when the second largest construction company in the UK (Carillion) went bankrupt.
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Best Practices – Project Management – Why You Can’t Estimate Project Management Like Other Costs and What You Can Do About That.
Even though this is more common, rate based pricing is still too subjective.
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Book Review – The 4 hour Workweek – Sounds Good! But It’s Not for Me!
The book is ripe with principles to adopt. It’s pretty much a blueprint for changing your life.
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Best Practices – Negotiations – How An Accusation Audit Can Help you Win a Negotiation and Why Cops Shouldn’t Use This Tactic on Little Old Ladies
It was obvious that the damage happened as a result of her hitting the curb. I then tried to ask her what happened and she just looked at me with bewilderment.
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Best Practices – Retainage – How Contractors are Avoiding Retainage and How it Hurts Owners.
This had the net effect of holding back the Contractor’s entire fee as a guarantee that they would complete the work.
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Best Practices – Contracts – Why You DON’T Want a Detailed Cost Break-down in Your Stipulated Sum Contract.
Be sure that when you move into contracting, you have a firm understanding of how your contract is structured.
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