UTIPS and NEVI
All UTIPS academic research projects are funded by outside sources, primarily by NEVI (Dutch Association for Purchasing Management).
Jan Telgen and Fredo Schotanus are regularly invited as speakers for the NEVI 'kringen' and other NEVI meetings. Topics are:
Cooperative purchasing
European Tendering
Public Procurement (and developments)
Purchasing control
Purchasing management in different (public) sectors
Purchasing performance measurement (Balanced Scorecard)
Supplier selection
Et cetera
Related to public procurement Jan Telgen also holds the following positions:
Chairman NPPP (Netherlands Platform for Public Procurement)
Member of the board of the Dutch Purchasing Association, NEVI
Representative in EPPG (European Public Procurement Group)
Also, the PhD students participated in the NEVI ISFAH course. Finally, several yearly NEVI best thesis awards are won by UTIPS students.