A new survey has revealed that businesses are failing to see signs of improvement in the commercial skills used in public procurement.
The survey of CBI members revealed that one in five respondents had seen deterioration in the commercial skills employed by public sector procurement sector, while 60 per cent of respondents said that they had not seen any overall signs of improvement in commercial skills.
The survey said that an inconsistency across government departments, a focus on selecting the lowest bidder and failures to plan for long term relationships in favour of short-term contracts also raised concerns for the surveyed businesses.
CBI’s head of public services, Jim Bligh, said: “The Crown Commercial Service must complete its radical overhaul of the process and tackle inconsistency and poor standards”.
A spokesperson from the Cabinet Office while detailing continued progress agreed “that more needs to be done."
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