The Procurement Platform Groningen is a cooperation of 15 tendering authorities in the northern part of the Netherlands. The Platform requested Hanze to start a research project concerning the Social Added Value of the Platform’s spend. The first phase of this research has now been completed. This phase …

Presentation on social procurement in the Netherlands, partnership and labour pools by empoyers.

This paper provides guidance for developing risk-based management tools to improve the procurement (purchasing) performance of SMEs. Extant academic literature only offers little support on developing such tools and does not consider the wide variety of SMEs. The paper defines a procurement tool for …

De afdeling Procurement heeft een slechte positie binnen de business van KN. Dit onderzoek gaat over het oplossen van deze slechte positie door middel van categorie management. Op verzoek auteur zonder vertrouwelijke informatie.

De scriptie betreft een onderzoek naar de maatregelen die getroffen moeten worden op het gebied van contractmanagement bij een Best Value Procurement aanbesteding. Er is hierbij een vergelijking gemaakt met contractmanagement bij een traditionele aanbestedingsprocedure. De hoofdvraag die centraal staat …

This survey is about recognizing patterns in the way Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) organize their procurement activities. The scope of the survey is limited to the key commodities of the SME. A key commodity is defined as the purchased product or service group which is essential for realizing the …

The regional office of the Royal Association MKB-Nederland, the largest entrepreneurs’ organisation in the Netherlands, MKB-Nederland Noord asked us if we could support small and medium-sized entrepreneurs (SME’s) in the North of the Netherlands to fulfill social conditions in public procurement. SME’s …

Procuring green construction innovations: PhD project in New Zealand.Presentation USE Conference 2015. How SMEs organize competitive advantage.How innovative New Zealand firms procure environmental technical innovations for the construction industry, a literature review.

Posterpresentatie USE Conferentie 2015.

Construction industries in New Zealand and abroad have a low track record for successful sustainable innovations. This often has a negative impact on private and government spending, and on quality, society and the environment. This paper posits that the construction industry needs step-change (i.e. …