Public Procurement
The Financial Times published a piece last Friday taking aim at the process of sourcing more ventilators for the NHS. The author, Peter Foster, also posted a long twitter thread providing a few more details. The Government answered yesterday with a rebuttal posted on the Gov.uk website. The answer
Public Procurement
OpenOpps has a great thread on twitter looking into the purchasing activity of various national governments on the run up to COVID-19 lockdown: % increase in the volumes of Govt tenders published each week this year in UK (30 day comparison). Indicates Govt preparations started at beginning of Feb, some 6
Public Procurement
1. UK ventilator manufacturers protected from injury claims 2. A look into emergency procurement and beyond 3. General Motor’s first ventilators are ready for delivery 4. Feds will pay GM USD489M to make 30,000 ventilators by August 5. Coronavirus: Three quarters of public favour working with EU to
Public Procurement
I have been waiting to reply to Albert's volley on our ongoing discussion to give time for the dust to settle around the ventilator saga. I think it is fair to say we agree on the fact that the Dyson contract (as well as those for BlueSkies et
British academia
I have the luck to be facing the COVID-19 upheaval in academia from a comfortable position, holed up in a nice house, with my family and a comfy home office. I could easily have ended up stuck far away from my family had the shutters come down a week earlier,
Public Procurement
1. Emergency procurement for COVID-19: buying fast, open and smart 2. 5 procurement strategies for navigating the COVID-19 crisis from around the world 3. Portuguese contracting authorites have awarded €58M worth of COVID-19 related contracts directly [Portuguese only and gated] 4. Are the Albanian Government’s Secret Procruement Contracts Legal?
Public Procurement
The Cabinet Office published yesterday some further guidance on how PPN 02/20 is to be applicable to existing construction contracts. These new instructions consist of advice on the steps to take to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and a model deed of variation for contracting authorities to use and
Public Procurement
The OECD has just published a report on the state of public procurement in Slovenia, using a systems thinking approach. Here’s the summary: “ ”
Public Procurement
One of the benefits of blogging is the opportunity to get feedback quickly from your ideas so that you can reflect upon and refine them. A couple of days ago, Albert was kind enough to address my criticism of the Dyson ventilator contract and that poked me in a good
Public Procurement
The European Commission published today a Communication containing guidance on how to handle public procurement during this COVID-19 crisis. As it should be expected, this is simply a refresher of how to handle procurement quickly during an emergency and does not affect in any way the current set of procurement
Public Procurement
As mentioned on Friday’s post, the UK did not take part on the joint procurement set up by the European Commission for COVID-19 medical supplies, including that of ventilators. The Government's official response is that there was a miscommunication between the parties and that no invitation to
Public Procurement
A consortium of 20+ industrial, technology and engineering companies has also secured an order from the UK Government for over 10,000 ventilators. Differently from Dyson, Ventilator Challenge UK is basing its improved design on current models that have already been certified by the regulator, so it is anticipated that