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 <title>The Privatization of PWGSC: Are Taxpayer Dollars Funding Private Sector Empire Building Within The Government Bureaucracy?</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;You know the old story about peeling back the onion.  While the title to today’s post may seem a tad fantastic it is not out of the realm of possibility, at least from an operational perspective.  After all just ask the private insurance companies in Manitoba what they thought both before and after that provincial government introduced Autopac.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>The Continuing Dangers of Vendor Rationalization</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in a previous post, the feedback I receive from procurement professionals who attend my conferences never fail to make an impact in terms of the grassroots challenges they face on a daily basis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Often times, it is the adherence to long held beliefs and strategies that undermine their efforts to deliver maximum value in an expanding global economy.&lt;/p&gt;
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