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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\u2019t 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\u2019s 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:

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• Distinctions between Government and Commercial procurement
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• The evolution of digital procurement and the need to use it more in current times
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• Issues pertaining to Government- probity, compliance, and technology adoption
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Here\u2019s presenting part-1, where the focus is on COVID-19!