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Is China building a road to ruin?
Very interesting paper by Ansar, Flyvberg et all: “ ” — https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1609/1609.00415.pdf A more general piece can be found in the Wall Street Journal.
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1. Eversheds publishes report on Directive 2014/24/EU transposition in 19 Member States. 2. Romania will have mandatory electronic procurement by 2018. 3. The Digital Marketplace vision: part 3. Digital and simple by default. The other posts are also excellent. 4. Procurement fraud in Buckingham Palace. 5. Public procurement
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1. When is a development agreement not a public works contract? Burges Salmon looks into R (Faraday Development Ltd) v West Berkshire Council. 2. Is Sunlight Really the Best Disinfectant? Evidence on Procurement Transparency from Europe. 3. The oldest computer in use by the federal government has been found. 4.
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Some further thoughts on Brexit and its impact on procurement
This time from Lorand Bartels (Cambridge University), who argues that the UK will succeed to the EU on the Government Procurement Agreement: “ ” Although I am not entirely persuaded by the arguments (at least not yet) there is at least a reasonable case to be made for the UK to stay
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1. Sunlight foundation bites the dust (or will at most merge with another NGO). 2. Plugging the hole: procurement and anti-corruption. 3. OECD puts out a consultation on the revision of its Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems. 4. Singapore forks 18F's framework for micropurchases. 5. (Lack of) Contract
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Some comments to Arrowsmith's Brexit whitepaper
Prof. Sue Arrowsmith put out a whitepaper on the implications of Brexit for the UK's procurement rules. Albert has already provided a general comment on some important issues raised by the paper, such as the feasibility of a completely new procurement legal regime and what could be the
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1. Sue Arrowsmith dabs into what Brexit may imply to public procurement regulation in the UK. 2. Albert short comments on Sue's whitepaper. 3. India's measures against the procurement of foreign solar cells fall foul of WTO rules. 4. Tesla wins contract to power California grid.
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Brexit implications on the UK's GPA participation
Some food for thought raised by Jean Heilman Grier on the impact Brexit will have on UK's participation on the GPA: The UK’s negotiations to rejoin the GPA would involve the procurement that it would cover and the conformity of its laws with the GPA. As for
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1. Lessons from cities trying to be better buyers. 2. Some data from the European Construction Sector Observatory. 3. Clean contracting: safeguarding EU funds in Europe. 4. Public procurement — the next frontier for tax justice campaigning? I hope not. The economic operators' tax situation is covered (and well covered)
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1. Belgian Govt. approves procurement of software to track down terrorists. Gosh I would love to see the tender specifications for this one. Was it an output/outcomes based spec? Or did Belgium just accidentally acquired Twitter? 2. Albert kickstarts a big thinking discussion about what procurement should look like.
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Second part of the PCR 2015 commentary is up
Earlier in the week myself and Albert uploaded the second part of our Commentary to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. We are now up to Regulation 66 and expect to reach 72 in the next couple of weeks. We're still in draft mode with some entries needing the
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New episode of the Public Procurement Podcast is up
I have just uploaded episode #24 of the Public Procurement Podcast. The interviewee this time is Warren Smith, Director of Warren Smith, Director, Digital Marketplace part of the Government Digital Service. We talked at length about the changes in digital procurement the UK Government is curently undertaking, some that already