Comments on: What is happening to OGC? http://blog.procurement-excellence.com/what-is-happening-to-ogc/ Supply, Cost & Public Procurement Management Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:30:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Faceless Bureaucrat http://blog.procurement-excellence.com/what-is-happening-to-ogc/comment-page-1/#comment-3140 Faceless Bureaucrat Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:39:10 +0000 http://blog.procurement-excellence.com/?p=2989#comment-3140 " But in other areas, there is no certainty about future direction or strategy, so work has pretty much ground to a halt." No change there, then... The OGC died the day Sir Peter Gershon walked into the sunset and OGC Buying Solutions (or whatever they call themselves these days) was never more than an excuse to retain 250+ civil servants' jobs in an employment blackspot. Let's hope the lack of 'noise' from OGC means that the Cabinet Office is finally going to do what the Treasury should have done years ago - disband it and replace it with a 'Government Spending Team' of around 30 Procurement specialists headed by a Grade 5 supported by 2 or 3 Grade 7s. I suspect that the savings made through not having the cost of around 300 staff, including a full Chief Executive's Private Office and a Press and Media Team that was even bigger than HM Treasury's (despite not having a Ministerial support role) would be significant. FB ” But in other areas, there is no certainty about future direction or strategy, so work has pretty much ground to a halt.”

No change there, then…

The OGC died the day Sir Peter Gershon walked into the sunset and OGC Buying Solutions (or whatever they call themselves these days) was never more than an excuse to retain 250+ civil servants’ jobs in an employment blackspot.

Let’s hope the lack of ‘noise’ from OGC means that the Cabinet Office is finally going to do what the Treasury should have done years ago – disband it and replace it with a ‘Government Spending Team’ of around 30 Procurement specialists headed by a Grade 5 supported by 2 or 3 Grade 7s.

I suspect that the savings made through not having the cost of around 300 staff, including a full Chief Executive’s Private Office and a Press and Media Team that was even bigger than HM Treasury’s (despite not having a Ministerial support role) would be significant.

FB

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