Re: Bureaucratic procurement
This is exactly it. And there's no "official" way around it because you can't buy it yourself without incurring the wrath of the procurement departments, and you would never get reimbursed.
Was posting about this on here only the other day - my girlfriends works in the NHS in charge of a lab and has to pay something like £2 each for an AA battery. And gets... an AA battery. Down the road you can get a pack of them for £2, just the same. But you're not allowed to do that.
Somewhere there's a health minister with a procurement company who's getting their percentage on every product and then decrees that you can ONLY go through procurement.
Scumbags.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
