This paper takes as its starting point that complex projects, interpreted as multiple dependent interactions between many stakeholders over time, challenge traditional procurement practices based on the serial purchase of discrete components. The paper examines how the procurement management of...

This paper is a study of the UK government's Welfare to Work Programme between 2011 and 2012 and provides a critique of the Department of Work and Pension's commissioning and procurement process.The study draws on the views of relevant stakeholders and to the impact of two-tier procurement,...