Are all procurement departments arsey?

[Old Greg]

Sounds like you're not in public sector then. In public sector they would have to go through a lengthy and drawn out procurement process to decide where to buy paperclips, probably publishing an invitation to tender, with some complicated scoring system for evaluating the responses.

My experience of the public sector is that you find a supplier youblike, haggle over how much you can you get for 1Aquatic£1 under the director's delegated authority and then find a way of waiving procurement rules.

[NotAllThere]

Sounds like you're not in public sector then. In public sector they would have to go through a lengthy and drawn out procurement process to decide where to buy paperclips, probably publishing an invitation to tender, with some complicated scoring system for evaluating the responses.

Which will show, lo and behold, that the best supplier is the best mate of the local MP.