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They also have less capacity to spread risk and cost. Despite declining real revenues, the demands upon them have been increasing steadily in recent years due to the practice of downloading and increasing demand of the public.
To do so municipalities must learn to borrow from the lessons learned by the private sector, whose tighter financial constraints are a closer approximation to their own than the constraints applicable to provincial and federal governments. To that end, established practice needs to be put under the microscope and subjected to an exacting and painstaking cost-benefit analysis.
It would be going too far to suggest that a more scientific approach to procurement is the only thing that needs to be done. In dealing with the subject of municipal procurement, I have repeated the one continuing theme over the years. It is that municipal procurement needs to become more strategic in design, more deliberative in execution, and more critical in its approach and implementation.
Despite a general change in attitude at most governmental contracting authorities, there are unquestionably many who continue to cling to this view.
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