https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/procurement/ Recent content in Procurement on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part1/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part1/ Part 1 of 3. Some MSPs lie; most never have to, because the vendors whose products they recommend pay them and nobody must tell you. The tells that you are being sold to rather than engineered for: the free fix refused, requirements never written down, one option on the shortlist, no open source line, and the addresses you rent forever. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Part 3 of 3. What the SLA actually promises, what the liability cap is worth, and what the excuses sound like when it fails: the meeting about an invented crisis, the day it becomes your fault, the account that goes quiet, the advice that costs them money, what leaving really involves, and why nobody regulates the selling. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/how-far-the-law-reaches/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/how-far-the-law-reaches/ Part 5 of 8. Part 2 covered the law that reaches your data; this one the law that reaches your company. Non-American firms paying huge penalties under US law for conduct barely connected to America, what the French National Assembly made of it as a commercial weapon, and the assumptions a product carries from its home market. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-same-pattern-elsewhere/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-same-pattern-elsewhere/ Part 7 of 8. This is not really about technology. Four firms control most of the world's seed supply and licence terms can stop a farmer replanting; ten retailers move most of Britain's food. Both got a legal answer, a Groceries Code Adjudicator here and an unfair-trading directive across the EU. Software has nowt like it, and this asks why. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/choice-coming-back/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/choice-coming-back/ Part 8 of 8. Since 2025 the European answer has turned from plans into things you can actually install. Office suites, payment systems and new rules are all real now. This post covers what has landed, what is honestly still years off, and 3 questions to work out where you stand. Plain language.