"It's just like payola," said Paul Lombardi, head of contracts for the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
No, Twenty Twelve was pitch perfect throughout, with the possible exception of head of contracts Nick Jowett Vincent Franklinn), who seemed too obviously inspired by Mackenzie Crook's immortal Gareth in The Office.
But while the company itself was not implicated in wrongdoing — charges were only brought against its head of contracting — the allegations surrounding EyakTek raised other troubling questions about small-business contracting, because the company had a legally sanctioned leg up in the competition for small-business contracts.
Miss Nicholson, a lively lady of 51, is head of the Contracts & Copyright Division of the Macmillan Co.
One of those indicted on money laundering charges is former head of Government contracts for the company, Hans Fischer.
Another Gazprom executive, Sergei Komlev, the head of the contracting department, told participants at an economic forum in Moscow that Western European energy companies had inappropriately elevated their daily demands, knowing they could not be met, thus exaggerating the extent of the shortfall from Gazprom.
I want to thank them and apologize for this experience". A meeting with the head of the contracted firm and U Streeet Music Hall is scheduled for later this week.
"Our focus was shifted from just being a support service to being a strategic, pro-active function", explains Edward Vera-Cruz, the council's head of procurement and contract services.
Does Hartmut Mehdorn, the head of Deutsche Bahn whose contract ends in 2008, really want to saddle his successor with the kind of problems faced by Mr Obermann at Deutsche Telekom: shareholder pressure on one side and powerful unions, plus a legacy of state ownership on the other?
The grant recipient could end up having to return some of the money, but Steven Dayton, head of TERP's contract team, says that hasn't been worked out yet.
I guess until they allay my concerns, I'll have to keep worrying about the NHS's head of budgets and contracts being a former US corporate health lobbyist.
