Coming to the end of my second week at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Met so many lovely colleages in KBS and beyond. Will miss my colleagues at @unibirmingham.bsky.social but hope we can carry on collaborating!
Finally making the jump from X. Pleased to find so many great PA folks over here already and hopeful that we can recreate the community that Twitter used to be. Found a few public policy/admin/management starter packs, but looking for more accounts and starter packs to follow, so recs welcome!
Fascinating and packed starting session of #P17 at #IRSPM25 - enjoying hearing about contract managers adopting relational contracting techniques, the impact of New Zealand’s soft procurement regulations, and how we can conceptualise procurement as state infrastructure. Standing room only now!
These problems are common to so many government technology projects, but also other contracts for complex programmes and public services. Governments get locked into relationships and don’t have the expertise or confidence to monitor or challenge suppliers’ behaviour.
Is more competition always better for public service contracting? My new article in @pareview.bsky.social suggests not. Competition leads to more costly and rigid contract management. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/more-co...
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This is my original piece for @uk.theconversation.com about what the scandal tells us about the UK’s broken model of outsourcing. theconversation.com/post-office-...
I've been continuing to write about the Post Office Horizon Scandal and how contracting and management problems underpin what went wrong. It's beginning to look like the same problems are being repeated with the project to replace the Horizon system. blog.bham.ac.uk/socialscienc...
Check out the quick explainer in the post link and you can read the full (open access) article here: doi.org/10.1111/puar...
Fired up by the morning at #Notwestminster and stories of councillors as community workers in Test Valley, community-led housing developments in Frome, and developing local People’s Charters. Loving being back in Huddersfield, a place from my childhood and reconnecting with this place.
