Sustainable Procurement Limited

Barbara Morton, Director

Barbara was Project Manager of the business-led Sustainable Procurement Task Force chaired by Sir Neville Simms. The task force's recommendations to government were published in the report "Procuring the Future", in June 2006.

Over the past number of years Barbara has delivered sustainable procurement training to international audiences. She is technical advisor to the Marrakech Task Fore on Sustainable Public Procurement and her recent work includes sustainable procurement policy and practice advice to local governments, regional development agencies and the fire service.

Barbara has delivered presentations at conferences throughout the UK, Europe and abroad. In addition, Barbara is a member of several national and international professional organisations and committees involved with developing the sustainable procurement agenda.

Prior to 2005 Barbara had a 10 year university career in procurement and sustainable procurement research, training, event organisation and professional practice at the University of Manchester. In addition Barbara had a 10 year procurement practitioner career with the UK National Health Service (NHS).

Gregg Paget, Managing Director

Prior to joining Sustainable Procurement Limited, Gregg had a 28 year career in Environmental Management at the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University (Senior Lecturer) and the Land Economy Department, Aberdeen University (Research Fellow). This included undergraduate (BSc) and postgraduate (MSc) lecturing, professional training, research, consultancy and academic writing.

To supplement our small but skilled team are a number of well qualified and experienced associates. Recently we have used professionally qualified environmental managers / procurers to help prepare sustainable procurement guidance material, training packages and training delivery and to research ethical and social aspects of procurement.