The Institute for Government published today a report on the UK government procurement practice, specifically on the scale and nature of public expenditure via public procurement. Here’s the abstract: “ ”
Public Procurement
1. Scottish Government to explore construction of GOV.UK Pay alternative 2. Is G-Cloud Broken 3. France approves new public procurement code coming into force in April 2019 (French only) 4. Govtech accelerator Public joins hands with Accenture to digitise UK government 5. Procurement and compliance costs (from the
Public Procurement
1. Vietnam to open public procurement market for foreign investors. 2. China in the Balkans: Motivations behind growing influence. 3. Italy’s National Anti-Corruption Authority is the first winner of the European Commission’s Digital Transformation award. Brownie points for them using Tor to protect whistleblowers. 4. Engaging with
Public Procurement
Although the general deadline for transposition of the 2014 public procurement Directives was April 2016, Article 90 of Directive 2014/24/EU provided the Member States more time to get their act together in what concerns electronic procurement. Well, the deadline for transposition of the remaining electronic procurement obligations contained
Public Procurement
Last week, Bloomberg ran an article claiming the USA and two other countries were blocking the UKs accession to the GPA agreement. Yesterday, it doubled down on the story stating New Zealand and Moldova as the two other members blocking the UK. and provided more information about why Moldova is
Legal
This is a slide I will be using on Monday’s EU law lecture. I have not drilled down into the details, namely if there is any evolution or if there has been an increase on Commission’s delegated Regulations but I was suprised at the findings. The EU legal
Brexit
The UK Government published recently a guidance note on the potential impact for public contracts access in case there is no deal with the EU before March 29 2019. There is not really much actionable information and perhaps calling it “guidance” is a slight misnomer as the document is more
Public Procurement
Liz David-Barret and Mihaly Fazekas have a new research project called Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting, funded by the Department for International Development Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme. The project aims to look at how corruption can manipulate procurement and strategies to identify variables, patterns and trends that may indicate
Public Procurement
The House of Commons Library has just published an interesting new briefing paper on public procurement and contracts. It is an introductory text, but one that sets up the scene well to explain how public procurement works in the UK. The briefing paper can be found here.
Public Procurement
Arecent decision by the Technology and Construction Court (Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust v Lancashire County Council [2018] EWHC 1589) is a tour de force on how contracting authorities are often still unable to deal properly with the need to have good decision making models *and* keeping track of their
Public Procurement
Here's an article (in Spanish) that caught my eye this morning. A couple of interesting tidbits: "The Spanish cleaning companies Association and the Unions trust that the new Public Contracts Law covers labour costs and to guarantee the social rights of workers in all tenders from the
blockchain
I came across this paper on Hacker News yesterday and decided to have a look at it since it merges two of my interests: distributed ledgers and procurement. The paper by Hardwick, Akram and Markantonakis proposes a theoretical framework for a tendering system based on smart contracts, running on the