What, though, is a classicist (first degree) and musical scholar (several higher degrees) doing running primarily vocational universities 10,000 miles from home, and arguing about the fine print of service procurement?
There are also new service procurement options that help flex budgets and address resource constraints.
The sleeper service procurement programme will run in spring next year, followed by the ScotRail service next summer.
All throughout the five-day workshop, the discussions focused on supply planning processes, client service, procurement, and logistics.
PCCs must respect national policing requirements; money must be spent on certain services; procurement will be more centralised than before.
In addition, Mr. Cuomo and his aides have argued that school districts can reduce their administrative compensation, that they have reserves they can tap, and, most recently, that they can "cut the fat" by reducing non-classroom expenditures like food services, procurement and transportation.
The proposed provision in the state budget, which still faces debate and a vote by the Legislature, would allow the governor to move money "for the purpose of planning, developing and/or implementing the consolidation of administration, business services, procurement, information technology and/or other functions shared among agencies".
The Department of Work and Pensions appears to be throwing its common goods and services procurement into the common pot finally, which is expected to save it £100m.
Simply put, Rearden Commerce offers a platform for managing business travel and services procurement for "prosumers" (professionals who are also consumers at work) in an automated mode, the same way a personal secretary would.
All important areas are included, notably trade in goods, services, procurement, intellectual property rights, competition, capital movement, investment and dispute settlement.
Ministers and negotiators have made "significant progress in recent months on all the legal texts and annexes on access to our respective goods, services, investment, financial services, government procurement and temporary entry markets," the statement said.
