Public Procurement
OECD publishes report on state of public procurement in Slovenia
The OECD has just published a report on the state of public procurement in Slovenia, using a systems thinking approach. Here’s the summary: “ ”
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Public Procurement
Further reflections on the ventilator saga
One of the benefits of blogging is the opportunity to get feedback quickly from your ideas so that you can reflect upon and refine them. A couple of days ago, Albert was kind enough to address my criticism of the Dyson ventilator contract and that poked me in a good
Public Procurement
Commission's guidance on the use of the public procurement framework in the COVID-19 crisis
The European Commission published today a Communication containing guidance on how to handle public procurement during this COVID-19 crisis. As it should be expected, this is simply a refresher of how to handle procurement quickly during an emergency and does not affect in any way the current set of procurement
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Some further reflections on the UK's purchase of ventilators
As mentioned on Friday’s post, the UK did not take part on the joint procurement set up by the European Commission for COVID-19 medical supplies, including that of ventilators. The Government's official response is that there was a miscommunication between the parties and that no invitation to
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Ventilator Challenge UK also obtains order for 10,000 ventilators
A consortium of 20+ industrial, technology and engineering companies has also secured an order from the UK Government for over 10,000 ventilators. Differently from Dyson, Ventilator Challenge UK is basing its improved design on current models that have already been certified by the regulator, so it is anticipated that
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Some thoughts on the UK's COVID-19 procurement of ventilators from Dyson
The BBC published a newspiece yesterday stating that Dyson had been commissioned by the Government to produce 10,000 ventilators based on a new design that is yet to pass any medical tests. This comes a mere 10 days after the Government called for help from the private sector in
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Other countries procurement responses to COVID-19: Ireland
The Office of Government Procurement in Ireland (hat tip to Ross!) has published an instruction note on how to directly award contracts in situations of extreme urgency, absence of competition/protection of exclusive rights, using the standard procedure with accelerated timescales, light touch regime or extending/modifying a contract during
Public Procurement
Portugal amends COVID-19 exceptional procurement regime
Portugal amended yesterday part of the exceptional legislation approved to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. Decree-Law 10-E/2020 from 24/03/2020 is a short piece of legislation and in what concerns public procurement simply extends the legal regime introduced by Decree-Law 10-A to all contracting authorities covered by Article
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UK sits out on the EU's joint procurement of medical equipment
Despite the UK being party to the EU Joint Procurement Agreement on medical countermeasures, it seems that it had sat out the recent round of procedures launched earlier in the month to deal with the shortage of medical equipment arising from the COVID-19 crisis. Despite calls to join in, it
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New report on sustainability through public procurement
Marta Andhov and Roberto Caranta edited a just published report entitled Sustainability through public procurement: the way forward - Reform Proposals. The name says it all since it covers some ideas of how to improve sustainability in public procurement in the near future. This report is part of the SMART
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Links I Liked [Public Procurement]
1. Lithuania to buy, lease 35,000 computers as schools prepare for remote learning. 2. Danish disinfection robots save lives in fight against coronavirus 3. World Bank launches database on country procurement systems and country eProcurement implementations
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Public contracts and COVID-19 online colloquium March 24
My good friend Chris Yukins from George Washington University is running an online colloquium on the challenges raised by COVID-19 in public procurement for this coming Wednesday at the following times: * Pacific US – 9:00 * Mountain US – 10:00 * Central US – 11:00 * Eastern US – 12 noon * United Kingdom/Ireland