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.
3. Public contracts under the spotlight (Spanish only).
4. The Garden Bridge and the Sunk Cost Fallacy in Government Projects.
5. World Bank Public Procurement Benchmarking: The Challenges of Bureaucracy. First part here.
Last week, in her speech on the political guidelines for her new term as Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen announced the following in relation to public procurement: "We must also make better use of public procurement – which accounts for 14% of EU GDP. A 1% efficiency gain in
I've just uploaded to SSRN my (draft) entry for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of EU Law. It's on general principles and here's the abstract: "Public procurement regulation within the EU is subject to a mixture of primary, secondary law and case law. This
A flipside of having commented on the recent Portuguese general election party manifestos is that I now have a record of proposals. None paid much attention to procurement and certainly no one suggested a profound revision of the Public Contracts Code. Fast forward a mere 4 months and that is
Out of the manifestos analysed, the Green Party one is by far the shortest. It is unsurprising then that there is not much to be found about procurement in it. The only proposal it contains is that they will campaign to bring the Prompt Payment Code into law and debar