Public sector procurement in Europe skewed by price
Author: just-style.com | 26 January 2007
A conference on the procurement of textiles and clothing by Europe's public service sector was organised this week in Brussels by the European Commission. It was accompanied by calls for a shake-up in the way public contracts are handled, with less emphasis on price and more on quality, delivery and working conditions, as Jozef De Coster reports.
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