PADS Internal Critics and Defectors Grow

2019-10-30

Some expressed dismay. Others anger. The names of others just disappeared. They include six medical doctors, two professors and a nurse. One of the physicians is listed as a co-chair but has been dead for 20 months.

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Big Pharma Is Boosted by PADS Alliance with Association of Mature American Citizens

2019-10-25

Says PADS Founder Dr. Robert Campbell: “Big Pharma does something really special. What we have to do is that when they do something special, they get paid for it.”

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Was Spend Matters a Paid Consultant When Defending Ivalua’s Nearly $50M NYC Boondoggle?

2019-10-24

Spend Matters aggressively defended Ivalua after our analysis of how NYC is paying 340 times more per agency for custom-built eProcurement software than Dallas paid for off the shelf software. When one finally discovers its Client Disclosures page, Ivalua is in a list of companies that are Spend Matters clients.

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Q&A with Spend Matters Founder Jason Busch

2019-10-22

He denies conflicts while his procurement trade publication Spend Matters cheered the company embroiled in a growing New York City eProcurement contract scandal.

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Ivalua’s Ties to Procurement Industry Website Spend Matters Raise Questions

2019-10-16

New York City’s costs are approaching $50 million to custom-build an eProcurement system when the City of Dallas got one for less than $50,000. Spend Matter’s full-throated defense of the Big Apple boondoggle caused us to take a look at the influential industry website itself. We were surprised at what we learned.

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