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Procurement Portfolio - Public Procurement home page from The Source Public Management Journal
European Tenders Direct - An information service providing details of european tenders, public contracts, public tenders, contracts and tenders issued by European organisations.
Society of Purchasing Officers - The Society of Purchasing Officers in Local Government (SOPO) engages in a range of activities aiming to promote its strategic purchasing, contracting and supplies functions.
ESPO - Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation - ESPO supplies schools, colleges, County Councils, City and District Councils in Cambridge, Norfolk, Warwick, Leicester and Peterborough along with other statutory bodies such as charitable organisations which elect to make use of its specialised knowledge and services.
GCat - Government IT Catalogue - Electronic catalogue of IT products administered by EDS and Computacenter.
Public Source Online - Online resource for UK public sector buyers
IPF Procurement and Commissioning Forum - News and updates on procurement activity across the public services.
ITNET - Creative Outsourcing Solutions - Supply outsourcing solutions to the commercial and public sectors, including the delivery of IT services and information dependent business processes.
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Adams) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Procurement Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Procurement The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Procurement "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Procurement There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Procurement "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Procurement Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Procurement Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Procurement Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Procurement "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Procurement The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Procurement In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Procurement If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Procurement Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Procurement Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Procurement
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