New public procurement blog
Michael Bowsher, barrister and director of the King's College Diploma and Master's course 'EU Public Procurement Law in a Global Context' has just started a new blog on public procurement.
Welcome to the fold Michael!
Michael Bowsher, barrister and director of the King's College Diploma and Master's course 'EU Public Procurement Law in a Global Context' has just started a new blog on public procurement.
Welcome to the fold Michael!
The UK government has finally published the new National Public Procurement Statement which will come into force in conjunction with the Procurement Act 2023 later this month. I am yet to dive into it properly, but it is not a million miles from what I had expected it to be.
"The case for competitive government purchasing is that the long-term impact on the price and quality of goods and services and the price, quality, and process of public works will provide direct benefits to public authorities. But, for each individual public authority, these benefits tend to be opaque, while
Despite ambitious goals back in 2014 and years of development since, the current legal framework has failed to deliver the transformational benefits originally envisioned for electronic procurement. In fact, it has actually become a barrier to meaningful digital innovation in public procurement processes. The Commission's recent initiatives in
"As discussed in chapter 8, developments since the 2000 EU summit in Nice demonstrate a growing desire on the part of powerful member states (France and Germany) to consider specific social objectives more fully in the application of competition policy—for example, by developing policies to bolster individual economic