Putting waste to good use

Tag: public procurement

Private sector contractors accept competition and its consequences

16th November 2015 Posted by DrGevE

The revelation following the BBC Sunday Politics show (8 November, 2015) that the private sector operated as a “cartel” and that their involvement in waste collection did not increase competition is a curious inversion of the argument generally put forward for outsourcing waste collection, as opposed to keeping the service in-house.

Policy & Government

Creating, not wasting social value

2nd November 2012 Posted by DavidPJ

Does it really require the intervention of Parliament, through its new Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, for us to introduce more public services that provide a wider social benefit? As spending has been squeezed over the past few years I have witnessed just how much support from Local Government to the ‘third sector’ has been cut. If this trend