1. Canada among 10 WTO members airing concerns about Trump 'Buy American' order
2. GSA's Blockchain Blockbuster
3. How good are the opportunities published on the Digital Marketplace? A great "hot or not" take on contract postings.
4. World Bank publishes framework for disclosure in public-private partnerships
5. Spanish Parliament approves new public public procurement law (Spanish only)
I received an email earlier this morning informing me of Chris Bovis passing and I am taking it as an opportunity to reflect on my memories with him. To me he was always generous and gracious and I remain grateful for his help and encouragement over the years. My first
I have a new paper out on electronic public procurement in the EU, focused on the failures of the current legislative framework with some ideas of what should be done in the upcoming revision of the procurement Directives. Here's the abstract: This paper critiques the EU’s electronic
The Danish EU Presidency has put out its programme for the upcoming semester when Denmark will hold the presidency of the Council of the European Union. The programme is called "A strong Europe in a changing world" but when it comes down to public procurement we are not
I have just uploaded to SSRN a new working paper on the failure of the successive rounds of Directives in solving the direct cross-border issue. In short, home bias is as almost as present today as it was in the 1960s. For this one I dabbed a bit outside the