The answer is, mostly by offering the lowest price according to a study conducted by DataLab using data from 2016 onwards: I don’t think the findings are surprising at all, but gave a good look at the data after seeing price + quality + qualification as the third most common category.
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1. Spanish public procurement oversight body still without means to do its work [Spanish] 2. Trade facts the UK Government has to face 3. Bid rigging conspiracy in railroad electrification works: a very Spanish ‘sainete’ 4. Government urged to ‘buy British’ steel by producers Turkish bidder for British Steel was
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In a great example of using available contract data and building upon other researchers’ work, Silvia Fierascu looked at the risk of state capture in public procurement over 10 years for all the 28 EU Member States: Explore state capture country profiles. The analyses looked at over 2 mil. public
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1. Plastic: Universities and Councils in Wales cut back on plastic cups and Wrap Cymru will put out single-use plastics procurement guidance. 2. Four rocket companies compete for US Air Force funding 3. European Commission issues guidance on the participation of third country bidders in the EU procurement market
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The UK Central Government has just published the Procurement Policy Note 04/19 on supplier's approach to payment in the procurement of major contracts. Effectively from September onwards, in procurement processes tendered by Central Government, all tenderers for large contracts subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and
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The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday to Parliament that the Government will be awarding to Capita the Defence Fire and Rescue contract, putting end to a protracted process which involved a challenge by Serco, one of the other bidders. This is going to be a £525 million,
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Boris Johnson is once again talking about procurement: “ ” The obvious figure Johnson is missing here is that 97% or so of procurement is spent with British companies, so the upside of the measure is pretty much non-existent. However, any move to tilt the playing field in favour of British
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Warren Smith, Global Digital Marketplace Programme Director replied to my tweet this morning about the Commission’s Single Market Scorecard: Analysis of the @gov_procurement Digital Outcomes and Specialists (#DOS) framework @GOVUKdigimkt usage up to yesterday, regarding points [1] and [8] only pic.twitter.com/U4c7TVv8CdJuly 5, 2019 For the
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The Commission published yesterday the 2018 Single Market Scoreboard. The overall results can be found here and the procurement section is here. As usual, the caveat on poor data from TED and the ‘qualitative policy judgment’ applies, but let’s see how things are in procurement: There is a lot
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Construction firms are apparently unhappy with the multitude of framework agreements proliferating in the country. In their view it adds costs to the contractors businesses and suggest a ‘clearing house’ to avoid ‘unfair and overlapping’ frameworks. It is interesting to consider the implications of this suggestion. It is true that
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This is the transcript of Johnson’s interview with Sky’s Sophie Ridge: SR: It was a very simple question. Are you prepared to see borrowing go up? BJ: If it's borrowing to finance great infrastructure projects and there is an opportunity to borrow at low rates and
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Like buses, we wait ages for new trade deals and then they all show up at once. Just a few days apart, the EU has concluded trade deals with Mercosur and Vietnam. The first was 20 years in the making and second probably some time less. As for what matters