With COVID-19 disrupting the procurement and supply chain landscape across the globe, the focus has been on how businesses are looking at business continuity plans and cost-saving measures. However, there hasn’t been much debate on how Government procurement teams across Australia and New Zealand are reacting to this pandemic.

In order to get an in-depth view of how Governments are reacting to this pandemic, we caught up with Phil Chalkley- a seasoned procurement professional, with over 25 years of experience in helping both businesses and Governments transform their procurement function- to pick his brains on what he thinks Government’s should do to ride this difficult time.

In an exclusive two-part series, Phil not only talks about COVID-19, but also talks about the following:

• Distinctions between Government and Commercial procurement
• The evolution of digital procurement and the need to use it more in current times
• Issues pertaining to Government- probity, compliance, and technology adoption

Here’s presenting part-2, where the focus is on probity, compliance, and technology adoption in Government