Links I Liked [Public Procurement]
1. Some good examples of open data curbing corruption (anedoctal).
3. Related with the previous one...GDS Director says suppliers will be a component of Government-as-a-Platform.
1. Some good examples of open data curbing corruption (anedoctal).
3. Related with the previous one...GDS Director says suppliers will be a component of Government-as-a-Platform.
Yesterday I started this series of blogposts by some procedural aspects of the project. Today, we're moving on to the object of the contract, that is BIA the Artificial Intelligence Bot (or agent). And here things are interesting as well to say the least. BIA is to be
I saw on the cover of a portuguese financial newspaper a couple of weeks ago a piece about Infraestruturas de Portugal (the state-owned infrastructure public company) tendering a €1M contract for an AI tool called BIA - Bot de Inteligencia Artificial (Artificial Intelligence Bot) to be used to assist in
The Commission published last week the draft Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) proposal, after delaying it a couple of times. The draft is complex and puzzling at stages and frankly it lacks internal coherence since it includes four distinct approaches to achieve its stated objectives: speeding up permit-granting procedures for industrial
Every year since 2022 I update my table on the use of different public procurement procedures across the EU, based on data available on TED. Here's the table for procedures initiated up to the end of 2025. Year Open Restricted I Partnership C Dialogue CP + Neg Total 2014