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The Critic: The problem with public sector procurement
Today I’m talking bullshit. Or, more precisely, Bullshit Jobs. That was the title of an influential 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber, which argued that many jobs today serve no useful purpose at all: from roles that exist to stroke senior...
Startups Magazine: SMEs Are Being Frozen Out Of The Government Procurement Process
Most small businesses haven’t heard of the Social Value Act (SVA), but if they’ve ever been through the government procurement process, they’ll almost certainly have felt its force. The Act requires businesses bidding for public sector contracts to give back to the...