Public Procurement
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
Public Procurement
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)
Public Procurement
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.
Public Procurement
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
Public Procurement
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
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1. Public Procurement and Human Rights: A Survey of Twenty Jurisdictions. Report by the International Learning Lab. Last year I interviewed Claire Methven O'Brien about the topic for the Public Procurement Podcast. 2. A Case of Private Sector versus Public Body Going Head to Head for Community Adult
Public Procurement
The Portuguese Government has just published a first public draft of the Revised Public Contracts Code (PCC) which aims to transpose Directives 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU. The draft is available here (Portuguese only) and a public consultation open until September 23rd. The PCC revision
Public Procurement
1. Albert comments on the recent European Court of Auditors Special Report on procurement. Report itself is here. 2. Procurement corruption, Argentina style. 3. Bad procurement, custom software edition. 4. A friendly reminder that (some) contracting authorities in the UK are expected to publish their contract information on Contracts Finder.
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1. Public Works Slowdown Following Implementation of the New Italian Public Procurement Code. 2. Public Procurement Single Market scoreboard for 2015 is out. I think Albert has criticised the scoreboard in the past, but there is a measurement I find quite interesting - procedures with a single bidder. The figures for
Public Procurement
Although procurement rules are usually conceived to pursue increased competition via transparency and say non-discrimination, those which benefit from the increased access to procurement contracts coming from the private sector are not really keen in more competition that what is strictly necessary. Particularly, they do not like competition coming
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1. Mexico City starts publishing live public procurement open data (Spanish only). 2. GDS is looking for help to design "digital first" public contracts that are easy and simple to use. I am fully supportive of initiatives like this. 3. On the same vein, is now easier to
Public Procurement
As hinted a few times before, Albert and I have been busy setting up a joint Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Commentary over the last six months of so. As a recap, we concluded our "procurement tennis" match in the Summer 2015 and a few months later we got