... results for studying the actual occupational duties in procurement. The specialized job activities performed and managed in perhaps the fastest growing occupation within public sector management are catalogued in this study. Job analysis Professionalization Purchasing Public procurement Job...

... and another that concerns public‐private innovation. Findings Extant literature contains limited contributions that compare public procurement practice with private purchasing practice. Using tendering to regulate procurement is troublesome and may hamper the possibility to learn and gain value measured...

...‐1998), the focus was on forming the HFA. This was a change of tremendous magnitude. It involved developing detailed plans to operationalise the new policy directions (Steering Group, 1997), putting in place a transitional structure to pave the way for establishment of the central purchaser...

...J. Gordon Murray Delivering best value for money is accepted as the primary UK public sector purchasing objective and indeed a statutory duty for many in sub‐central government. An investigation of a purchasing unit was carried out which aimed to establish how it sought to achieve best value...

...J. Gordon Murray Considers the development and delivery of purchasing strategy within a local government setting. It demonstrates that purchasing can contribute to the political objectives of local government and suggests that strategic alignment leads to a repositioning of purchasing...

... areas for continuous improvement. Van der Weele and Rozemeijer (1996) define procurement as including: all activities required in order to obtain the product from the supplier and get it to the place where it is actually used. It encompasses the purchasing function, store, traffic...

..., such as concentrated purchasing on a long‐term basis (Ramsey and Wilson, 1990). A second factor has been the influential Deming (1988) whose widely cited quality improvement programme contains single sourcing. It may also be argued that single sourcing had been dismissed for so long that a reaction was bound to occur...

...Stephen Martin; Keith Hartley; Andrew Cox Explains that the public sector is a major buyer of goods and services. In the mid‐1980s discriminatory (buy national) public purchasing was identified as one of the barriers to the completion of the Single European Market. Studies suggested that a more...