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Securing contract best value
By Kate Lowe 17 February 2012
At last September's IoG Saltex exhibition a Horticulture Week panel debate on coping with today's tough maintenance budgets highlighted worrying examples of procurement practice, from frequent inclusion of long-obsolete machinery in tender documentation to out-of-date, heavily prescriptive contract specification squeezing out opportunities for contractors to bring their expertise to bear - and save money for cash-starved local authority clients in the process.
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