A good procurement process is good for business, it drives improved service and value, and encourages less waste. But procurement is about a balance of power. Get the balance wrong, everyone loses – and the people who are affected most are the end users and employees at the sharp end of unrealistic service delivery agreements. To achieve the right balance we must, as an industry, educate the sector as a whole and support our people better and celebrate when it is done right: something done very well by the Welsh National Procurement Awards.

On Friday 28th March a significant piece of the waste management infrastructure in Wales was removed when fire broke out at Atlantic Waste’s Cardiff facility, destroying a considerable amount of plant including the Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) structure. Atlantic Waste is south east Wales’ largest waste recovery company, handling in excess of 100,000 tonnes per annum, a very high percentage of which is construction and demolition waste. 

Sometimes procurement is regarded as a dirty word in the built environment, but particularly in support services. When it is done poorly projects can go badly and many issues rear their head further down the line. But, when procurement is done well, especially if it is delivered as a collaborative project as on so many of our CEW Awards then it reaps huge dividends for all concerned – particularly in terms of economic, environmental and social benefits. It was obvious to Milica Kitson, Chief Executive at CEW as a judge of the Welsh National Procurement Awards.

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