Three days on, I'm still unable to say much about what happened in Barcelona. But I can talk about our enduring special relationship. The city where I got married remains my mistress. The city where I lived a challenging year a decade ago, but to which I return
Public Procurement
This is about a week old, but a pretty big deal. What a monumental screw up: “” That the procurement procedure did not take into account how to handle classified data (let alone the bog standard data protection rules) is beyond comprehension. Well, not really: it is another piece of evidence
Public Procurement
1. China’s new Silk Road risks unravelling in Hungary. 2. Catalan construction companies investigated for possible cartel [Spanish only]. 3. The U.S. Government’s long road to adopting the cloud. 4. Buy American’ has little meaning in today’s world of globalized supply chains. 5. New Spanish procurement
Public Procurement
The European Commission has just fined Google for abuse of dominant position for giving an illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service on search results. The fine is big €2.4B but it is simply the beginning of a long story instead of the closure of another. The decision
Links
1. Chicago wants to modernise procurement. 2. Vigo Council migrates to Linux. 3. Public procurement: making the world a better place - one order at a time. 4. Lessons learned from attempting to fix tech procurement. 5. Cladding for Grenfell Tower was the cheaper, more flammable option.
Public Procurement
Good article on the Local Government Lawyer about information security: “ ” That is all true, but the problem of information security/management is not valid for the duration of the procurement procedure only. It is valid for contract performance as well, something that as we saw a few weeks ago with
Public Procurement
1. Public procurement is making the world a better place—one order at a time. 2. Learning Insights: Open contracting – a helping hand in Nepal. 3. The U.S. Has Forgotten How to Do Infrastructure. 4. Spain will create procurement oversight body. (Spanish only) 5. Trump's 'Buy
Public Procurement
Last week Ian Makgill from OpenOpps and SpendNetwork published this stat: “” It's a big number, but one we should not be surprised to see. First, according Regulation 109 PCR2015 below the EU financial thresholds the obligation covers Central Government (from £10,000 upwards), NHS and sub-central contracting authorities
Public Procurement
A couple of days ago, Timo Rantanen posted on Facebook the following comments about the ESPD (reprinted with his permission). I will provide my own responses inline, and expand a little bit on some of the ideas included in my recent paper about the ESPD. "- not all countries
Public Procurement
1. A settlement under an existing public contract could result in the complete re-tendering of the contract 2. New Belgian public procurement directives implemented 3. Nationalists would implement transparent digital public procurement system in Malta. Well, it has to happen by 2018 anyway. Same party also wants to spend 25%
Public Procurement
My good friend Martin Trybus from the University of Birmingham is looking for a Ph.D candidate for his EU-funded Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (ITN) on transatlantic trade and investment. Here's the low down: "The ESR will work within Birmingham Law School and
Public Procurement
Albert put the ball rolling (or kicked the hornets' nest, depending on the perspective) yesterday by calling for more experimentation in public procurement. He is putting a finger on a particular wound - innovation in public procurement - and my comments (for now) can be found on this twitter