PALAVRAS: Dougal Paver, Merrion Strategy
Richard McGuckin não está sob ilusões sobre o cuidado de equilíbrio cuidadoso que ele enfrenta como o Hotel de Liverpool. Em resposta a questionamentos animados do piso, ele reconheceu que garantir que as compras públicas sejam equilibradas usando os melhores provedores locais com o estímulo competitivo das principais empresas nacionais ou globais era complicado. como o Projeto de Energia Mersey de Mersey. Pareceu-me, portanto, que ele está bem posicionado para fazer malabarismos com as reivindicações concorrentes expressas no chão.
Richard was speaking at a members’ dinner hosted by Downtown at the city’s Hope Street Hotel. In response to lively questioning from the floor he acknowledged that ensuring public procurement balanced using the best local providers with the competitive stimulus of leading national or global companies was a tricky one.
On the one hand, there was a view that previous public procurement policy in the city region actively precluded local suppliers whilst, on the other, a view that we should avoid being ‘parochial’ and bring the very best to the region to advise on key programmes such as the proposed Mersey tidal energy project.
Richard’s background has seen him providing strategic guidance across an extraordinarily broad range of public policy and delivery themes, from transport, planning, housing, highways and economic development over 20-plus years on his home turf of Teesside. It struck me, therefore, that he’s well-placed to juggle the competing claims expressed on the floor.
And, as a chartered civil engineer, he has the technical grasp and project management capabilities to enable him to provide the considered view of risk, cost and deliverability that his political master, Mayor Steve Rotherham, will need as he seeks to fulfil his ambitious agenda.
Straightforward and eminently approachable, Richard says he’s been amazed by what he has found in the city region and by the potencial evidente para um crescimento adicional. Garantir que o maior número possível de benefícios da população local se beneficie disso, pois a agenda de políticas da autoridade combinada é essencial para incorporar mais amplamente a prosperidade, observou ele. Habilidades, treinamento, escolaridade e engajamento do empregador analisaram o que foi uma discussão ampla e agradável. Downtown in Business
