Africans learn the procurement business from A to Z Recently, we were asked by a population project in Nigeria to act as its procurement consultants. Under the personal supervision of our managing director and a contracted consultant, our team taught procurement principles and practice to nearly 40 project officers from all over the country. Our terms of reference covered preparation of procurement schedules for the first three vears of the project, production of sample bidding documents, and preparation of full specifications for the many items on the project's procurement schedule. The consultancy period lasted three months, finishing with a two-week Procurement Procedures training course. Seventy students - one tap Conditions at a residential language school in Gjirokastėr, southern Albania, were far from ideal.
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More than 70 girls shared one tap and there just weren't enough beds to go
round. A Channel Islands construction company, contracted to make improvements, arranged
with us to supply building and other materials so that major improvements could be made.
It was imperative that the supply of the equipment, purchased from seven different
sources, was co-ordinated so that every item was available at a pre-determined delivery
point in Jersey, in the Channel Islands: there was no room for error. On the appointed
day, at the appointed hour, supplies - which had been regularly progressed by our shipping
department and management team - were delivered exactly to contract. The equipment was
then loaded on to trucks donated by the States of Jersey government, and driven out to
Albania by volunteers. 
