Defining choice

Procurement is revealing its true power. As PepsiCo integrates AI to sharpen decision-making, Europe accelerates defence procurement in a world less secure. Meanwhile, unclear rules stall essential projects and housing plans collapse before they begin. Yet local wins like the HSE mattress contract show procurement’s potential to anchor progress when choices are clear and confident. 

This week reminds us procurement is never just about price or compliance. Each choice defines what gets built, protected, and improved. It is time to see procurement not as back-office process, but as the silent architect of national capability and commercial resilience.