Purchasing Strategies for Environmental Restoration Projects

The field of environmental restoration is unique and highly complex. The purchasing function will be responsible for acquiring the restoration services for much of America′s estimated $500 billion clean‐up. Examines the specific characteristics of these projects and discusses how the unique nature of the work affects the function performed by today′s purchasing professionals. The scope and complexity of the purchasing job is vastly increased, requiring extensive teamwork and the development of dynamic and flexible purchasing strategies to handle the increased complexity and uncertainty at contaminated sites. Examines several alternative strategies for purchasing restoration services. No one strategy will fit every restoration project. The specific characteristics and unique nature of each project, and their effects on the purchasing job, must be considered in order to develop a well co‐ordinated and innovative purchasing strategy.