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      Procurement Topics: Contract Management, Demand Management, Invoicing & Payment, Outsourcing, Preferential Procurement, Procurement Ethics, Procurement Technology, Risk Management, Sourcing, Spend Analysis & Benchmarking, Supplier Diversity, Supplier Relationship Management, Sustainable Procurement, Value creation
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    1. “ Costs at the moment are critical and a lot of companies are bidding for work sub-economically. ”
      By Caroline Cook
    2. “ If you are using less materials that can save a client money and reduce the natural resources being used in a project – materials like aggregate or steel, but also fuels like oil and gas – it makes absolute sense to do that both from a legislative and cost basis. ”
      By Caroline Cook
    3. “ Despite being in a cost-competitive market, sustainability requirements continue to increase. ”
      By Eddy Taylor
    4. “ As well as the Color Palette and our Supply Chain Green Solution award, we are also applying for funding in order to deliver a round of training to our key suppliers in environmental management. ”
      By Dale Turner
    5. “ The use of ECI can be seen as a mechanism by which environmental issues and processes become a lot easier to deal with because you're dealing with the issues as a team with clients and designers from very early stages. ”

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    • CPO Agenda

  1. Green giants

    cpoagenda.com (Sep 19 2011) Sustainable Procurement , Construction & Building

    1. Construction may be suffering as government spending is reined in across Europe, but despite all the cost cutting, the environmental agenda is still a force to be reckoned with. (Read Full Article)

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