Examples include joint negotiations of quality standards and monitoring among purchaser, provider, and professional organizations.
A contract specification choice that local authority purchasers are beginning to examine more carefully is the degree of flexibility, particularly with respect to prices.
Even at the local level, the decisions of one purchaser, such as a general practice fundholder, do not determine service delivery for the whole community.
Convention and common sense dictated that potential purchasers were obliged to scrutinise the accounts of the target company.
Comparisons were made between the defence and civil sectors of the aerospace industry, with fleet purchasers also making their contribution.
Finally, we recognise that actual motivations will also reflect the 'subjective experiences', as realised through ongoing relations with purchasers.
A number of purchasers in 1996 were looking to increase their use of block contracts, especially for domiciliary care.
Local authority contracts officers and purchasers, anxious not to (be seen to) waste money, therefore generally disliked such contracts.
