Public Procurement
Last week the Cabinet Office published a press release entitled '350 rules to be ditched, creating a simpler, more flexible and transparent procurement' which is so outlandish in its claims that it warrants a proper fisking almost line by line: “” No evidence of these '350 EU laws&
Public Procurement
This is from a paper I am writing on competitive dialogue. I was surprised by the disparity but do not have any particular insight on why the numbers are what they are, but it is an interesting data set to ponder:
Public Procurement
I am yet to really get my teeth into the Procurement Bill laid before Parliament a couple of weeks ago, but have had a chance to look into exclusions and just those few articles warrant a blogpost by themselves. It is fair to say I am not a fan of
Public Procurement
In 'honour’ of the Procurement Bill being laid before Parliament in the UK, me and Albert are finally making available on SSRN the paper we authored for the European Law Review back in 2019 about the UK’ transition from an EU-based procurement legal system to one of its
Public Procurement
Not long after Prince Charles stood in for the Queen for the Queen’s Speech and the Government was laying before Parliament the new Procurement Bill, thus meaning we went straight from the consultation on the Green Paper to the (almost) final product without the intermediate step of a White
Public Procurement
As mentioned yesterday I attended a conference on sustainability in public procurement last week in Lisbon, probably the first sustainability-related conference I have attended since May 2017 and a good opportunity to take stock of what has changed over the years. Externally, the pressure is on to combat climate
Public Procurement
Last week I attended my first in person conference this side of COVID and I think it is fair to make a couple of observations regarding the experience. Overall, it seemed like COVID never happened and it was business as usual since it was a purely physical event with no
Legal
Two PhD positions have just been announced for CBS LAW. One in Compliance/Financial Compliance, the other in Digital Transformations & Law, both starting in Autumn 2022: https://www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/ledige-stillinger/phd-scholarship-within-the-field-of-compliancefinancial-compliance-the-department-of-management https:
Public Procurement
After spending most of 2020 commenting on the blog how COVID-related procurement was being carried out in the UK, the logical next step was always going to write a paper about it, particularly on the rules surrounding extremely urgent public procurement under Directive 2014/24/EU. The paper was
Public Procurement
I have just made available on SSRN a paper co-authored with Desiree Klinger on the issues surrounding non-compiance with contract terms in public contracts. This is part of the next book in the European Procurement Law Series and compares the findings from 9 European jurisdictions covered in the
Public Procurement
A couple of days ago I made reference to the Department for Health and Social Care annual report and its information about the losses on PPE. As it turns out the report contained more information related to public procurement warranting a comment. Once again buried deep in the report, the
Public Procurement
The yearly report from the Department for Health and Social Care makes for grim reading in what concerns Covid-related procurement, with the headline figure being the loss of £8.7 billion of the £12.1 billion of PPE spent in the financial year of 2020-21. Over half of