Commentary
Another Question: Why Not?
Dr. Stephen B. Gordon asks why strategic public procurement is the exception rather than the rule and offers some possible reasons.
In the last issue, we posed the three-part question, “What if? What If? Why?” as a challenge to think about how much better public organizations could operate and deliver services were such organizations to recognize and exploit the full potential of strategic public procurement. My longtime colleague John Adler of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), when he read that essay, immediately fired-off a very thoughtful response to what I had written. In his email, John...
