Procurement faultlines

Procurement is no longer just a backroom function. It's geopolitical, financial, and increasingly public. 

This past month alone, we've seen supply delays shaking public trust, billion-dollar infrastructure contracts put under the microscope, and a confidential pricing dispute that could crack open longstanding norms around transparency. 

In Europe, courts and commissions are redrawing the lines on who gets to play, while global tensions spill into tendering decisions that affect everything from health centres to nuclear power.

The throughline? Accountability. As scrutiny intensifies, procurement leaders must navigate a terrain that demands not only value but foresight. The sector’s future belongs to those who treat contracts not as transactions but as acts of public trust.