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Colin Cram

Colin Cram is a public sector consultant specialising in procurement and the former director of the North West Centre of Excellence.

May 2020

  • A worker in Bournemouth unloads PPE flown over from China.

    PPE fiasco shows the NHS should learn from Tesco how to spend its billions

    Colin Cram
    Supermarkets reacted fast to the coronavirus crisis. The NHS must urgently change the way it buys goods and services too

March 2018

  • Current burgundy UK passport and new blue passport side by side

    The UK passport deal was at least transparent. Elsewhere, it's a different story

    Colin Cram
    Instead of querying the procurement of passports, we should question the millions being spent on Whitehall consultants

January 2018

  • Recycling bottles and plastic in Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Britain's plastic bottle recycling capacity will rise by 50% as a new pounds 12m plant gets the go-ahead. Closed Loop Recycling has won approval for a second and bigger site in Wales.

    How Michael Gove's waste plans could bring local councils together at last

    Colin Cram
  • Brexit<br>File photo dated 11/05/16 of the Vote Leave campaign bus, as the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, will warn that the Brexit campaign’s pledge that leaving the European Union would mean more money for the health service must be honoured or voters will lose trust in politics. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday November 8, 2017. Mr Stevens will cite the Leave campaign’s controversial claim that Brexit will bring £350 million back under British control to spend on the NHS to argue for more funding for the health service. See PA story HEALTH NHS. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Switch Brexit billions into AI to transform UK health and social care

    Colin Cram

July 2017

  • Trucks drive along a road in front of snow capped mountains near Tashkurgan, an isolated outpost on China’s border with Pakistan. Tashkurgan has witnessed a flurry of construction and development in recent years and is now bracing for more change as a result of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative

    The UK ignores China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road plan at its peril

    Colin Cram
  • Grenfell Tower. London Photograph by David Levene 21/6/17

    To prevent another Grenfell Tower, we must centralise public contracts

    Colin Cram

November 2016

  • Thomond. LEEDS, 27th October 2014 - Leeds station. Passengers and on board crew on the 13.27 Transpennine Express service between Manchester and Leeds on the day the prime minister and chancellor announced proposals for HS3, a high speed rail link cutting journey times between the two northern cities to 26 minutes. hs2gallery

    Connecting Britain
    Transport cash won't fill the potholes in local government finance

    Colin Cram
  • Planes in the fog at Heathrow airport

    Connecting Britain
    UK airport expansion is 45 years too late. We're trailing places like Singapore

    Colin Cram

October 2016

  • close up of a junior doctor's uniform

    Every 1% saved from chaotic NHS procurement could save £220m

    Colin Cram
    If health secretary Jeremy Hunt took a tougher line over procurement, the millions saved could pay for thousands more junior doctors

July 2016

  • Medical equipment in the Accident and Emergency department of a NHS national health service hospital, Wales.

    Public procurement needs urgent reform in the wake of Brexit

    Public sector finance will be hit by the EU referendum but there are still huge untapped savings opportunities across the NHS and local government

June 2016

  • UK flag in Brussels.

    The impact of Brexit on UK's £200bn public procurement spend

    EU rules on public spending are not just red tape, they prevent corruption and ensure fairness. Replacing them would be a low priority

May 2016

  • Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Connecting Britain
    Roads and railways: where south-east Asia leads, Britain trails behind

    Colin Cram
  • David Cameron at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore

    Cameron must do more to secure his reputation as a corruption fighter

    Colin Cram

March 2016

  • Antique cash register

    End the costly, energy-sapping political games over Whitehall procurement

    Colin Cram
    Central government has made big strides in making its £13bn procurement spend more effective. It’s now time to move forward even faster

July 2015

  • George Osborne in Downing Street

    Public sector could save billions without cutting frontline services

    Whitehall can expect huge cuts in the emergency budget but there is scope for major efficiencies in procurement and shared services

April 2015

  • A student walks across public housing states after attending school in Singapore August 5, 2004

    How do you solve a housing crisis? Study the example of Singapore

    Colin Cram
  • Former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew

    Global public leaders
    The UK can learn a lot from Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore

    Colin Cram

January 2015

  • Hinchingbrooke hospital, Huntingdon

    Circle's withdrawal from Hinchingbrooke hospital is no cause for celebration

    Colin Cram
  • Hyderabad, India

    Why Singapore is building a new Indian city 10 times its own size

    Colin Cram

December 2014

  • Front entrance to Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre

    Has the government forgiven Serco for the Yarl’s Wood scandal?

    Colin Cram
    Just a few years after the immigration centre was caught in an abuse scandal, the outsourcer’s £70m contract has been renewed, writes Colin Cram
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