The event was very successful last year and due to high demand, we are organising a new Combatting Procurement Fraud International Masterclass at our Malawi office from 13th to 15th April. Our Senior Consultant Colin M Cram FCIPS will once more facilitate the course, in Lilongwe and across our African offices. Early bird registrations will attract a 10% discount on the full price ($800) and corporates enrolling 5 or more persons will qualify for an additional 5% discount. Contact us on +265 1 827050 or at malawi@harleyreed.com to register and for more information. You can also fill in a contact form on our ‘Contact Us’ page. Procurement fraud can wipe out much of a company’s profits and damage a nation’s ability to invest. The quality of procurement can make the difference between success and failure – whether of private sector companies or of national economies.
There is insufficient understanding of the benefits that a high performance procurement organisation can bring, a lack of understanding of what such an organisation might look like and how it can achieve first class results. This course looks at ways to combat fraud in procurement and provides delegates with practice in the use of twelve tools and checklists for combating and reducing the risk of procurement fraud in their own organisations. The course further looks at how to reform procurement within the public and private sectors and how to create a world class and a high performance procurement organisation.
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Our facilitator, Colin M Cram FCIPS, said “The benefits of the workshop are not just about reducing fraud, but extend to improving value for money and better contracts. One reason is that an important way to reduce risk of fraud is to create a first class procurement organisation”
A Senior Consultant with Harley Reed (UK) and an acknowledged procurement and strategic contracting expert, Colin is a sought after international speaker and workshop trainer. A trained fraud investigator, his focus on the practical is based on his 30 year track record in creating and being Director of leading edge joint and collaborative procurement organisations, securing cash savings of over $1.5billion from procurement spends of up to $10bn annually. He was a pioneer of ‘lean’ procurement. On 24 July 2013, the UK government announced that it accepted his proposal, made to a UK Parliamentary committee in January 2013, to reform the management of the UK government’s $300bn annual procurement spend, through creating the Crown Commercial Service (read a further report here) Colin M Cram regularly writes about procurement for the Guardian’s Public Leaders Network.
His recent article about Singapore’s decision to lead construction of a new capital city “10 times its own size” in Andhra Pradesh has been viewed over 120,000 times and tops the website’s list of most read articles.
Please click the links below to view Colin’s articles on The Guardian
– Why Singapore is building a new Indian city 10 times its own size
– Circle’s withdrawal from Hinchingbrooke hospital is no cause for celebration
More from Colin
– Towards Tesco – improving public sector procurement (for the UK Institute of Directors)
