CDE Executive Director Ann Bernstein speaks to 702’s Mandy Wiener about CDE’s response to the government’s Draft Procurement Regulations. While she welcomes the increased transparency that the draft regulations aim to introduce, she cautions that the preferential procurement provisions remain unnecessarily complex. “These will be more complex than the current system, which is already failing us in many respects, and will encourage corruption,” she argues, calling instead for a much simpler regulatory framework. The interview follows the release of CDE’s submission, Buying Badly: How the draft procurement regulations will raise costs and deepen corruption