Hallmarks of procurement excellence

by Caroline Boot, managing director, Clever Buying and Plan A. It’s Plan A’s Monday morning business meeting where our team of bid writers from all over the country (as well as one in Australia and one in Europe) is busy planning and coordinating our latest week input on 31 current tenders. Those RFx documents have…

Clever Procurement- Caroline Boot and ‘Clever Buying’

In the past tender writing and procurement has often been a painful and expensive (and often pointless) exercise, but Caroline Boot’s ‘Clever Buying’ course is changing the procurement sector. CAROLINE BOOT, from tender specialist company Plan A, explains. MY FIRST DOZEN years in the business of writing tender responses revealed a large-scale problem: the traditional…