Meeting the challenge

Governments markets are made up of the spending of National and Local governments. Each year the government spends billions of pounds on a range of services both to support its internal operations and to provide the public with services such as defence, education, road systems, public order and safety, housing, recreation and health care. Many government contracts are very large and can involve millions of pounds of public money. Because the government and its agencies spend funds to buy the products they need to provide…