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Keep up to dateBy Philip Watson2021-01-11T06:00:00
HLM’s Philip Watson welcomes certain departments’ refreshing approaches to awarding public sector contracts
The most over-used word of 2020 was, ‘unprecedented’. I can well imagine that, ‘uncertainty’ would dominate a word cloud of commentary surrounding the economic outlook for construction in 2021. Against this backdrop it is entirely foolhardy to try and predict the future for procurement. However, the pandemic and a Brexit deal has accelerated some of the aspects that were emerging in 2020 and so I’m going to stick my neck out and identify what I think are the top three positive trends in procurement for our industry.
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