Public Procurement
I've just been told that Prof Steen Treumer from Copenhagen University passed away. We all knew his disease would take him sooner than it should but I certainly wasn't expecting it to be this quick. Only last May we were making plans for meeting up in
Public Procurement
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has just published a report by Sascha Haselmayer about how procurement in cities should be reshaped to make it serve the citizens and not the bureaucracy. Here's part of the executive summary: "In 2021 alone, cities around the globe will spend
Public Procurement
I have spent the last 8 years or so arguing that 'community benefits' are nothing but a covert operation for what is protectionism of a more local nature and a gateway drug for ever more protectionism in a grander scale. What some contracting authorities (and countries as well,
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No sooner would I get my head around how one should go about and implement mandatory green public procurement (well in the EU at least) and the UK government ends up publishing a a new public procurement policy note on carbon reduction. This new guidance will mandate economic operators bidding
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Over the last few weeks or months I have been reflecting on the inevitability of the need to address climate change leading to a significant change on the way things are done. That includes public procurement (to an extent) and in that context I think the time is right to
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I’ve just published on SSRN an upcoming chapter for the European Procurement Law Series vol 11 on contract modifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Here’s the abstract: “This chapter focuses on the rules regarding public contract modifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as set by the
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I have posited many times in this blog (and elsewhere) that it is very possible a significant number of contracts awarded without competition in the UK as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic are illegal since the provisions of Regulation 32(2)(c) are not fully met. The key issue
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It seems that finally the chickens are coming home to roost in what concerns the behaviours of the UK Government last year while using public procurement to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Last week the FT kicked things off with an article that contained a comment from yours truly (and
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My good friend Carina Risvig Hamer asked to share that the University of Copenhagen has two PhD positions and a post-doc open at the moment in public procurement law. These will be based on a project about central purchasing bodies and framework agreements. If interested you can read more about
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Yesterday, Dominic Cummings made an appearance in the Commons to shoot in every direction bar himself. That in itself is not really surprising, but let's look at what he said about procurement: “In spring 2020 you had a situation where the Department of Health was just a smoking
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I have been thinking about the COVID-19 vaccination issues in the EU and guess that we can distill them to three crucial points: EU competences, procurement and lack of understanding of the real problem (production). First, there's the issue of EU competences which, in the area of health,
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I managed to finish my response to the Green Paper consultation on the public procurement reform proposed by the UK Government. It clocks in at 10,000 words and makes for a boring read as I followed the chapter/question structure adopted by the Green Paper. The file is available