Public Procurement
One of the topics for discussion in last week's Procurement Week was simplification of public procurement and how Brexit could finally enable the simplification of the legal framework in the UK. Simplification, like flexibility, is on the eye of the beholder. The problem with simplification is that it
Public Procurement
1. Some worrying signs about care services procurement in the UK. To those in the know, last week's revelations on BBC's Panorama were not exactly news. 2. The 30-second guide to government spending. All that is true can be found on Reddit. 3. Barcelona and other
Public Procurement
I wrapped up the second season of the Public Procurement Podcast last week with a special episode where the guest was yours truly, interviewed by Albert-Sanchez Graells about contracts below-thresholds, centralisation of procurement and Brexit. After 32 episodes, it is time for a look back to these two years of
Public Procurement
1. How's Helsinki bringing sustainability into public procurement? 2. EFTA Surveillance Authority publishes decision on public procurement. 3. Key findings from Suvi Taponen research "From Outsourcing Problems to Effective Service Management". Podcast here and good luck for the thesis defense! 4. Albert reviews some recent decisions
Public Procurement
It is no secret I have a very negative view on fairly lax approach to pre-market engagement taken by Directive 2014/24/EU and the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This week we have a textbook example of the risks posed by opening the floodgates of communications with potential contractors before
Public Procurement
After my post yesterday about the Department of International Trade "Buy Brexit" award criteria and some discussions on twitter I have come to the conclusion that the award criterion is one of political instead of cultural fit. While the section is called "cultural fit", its content
Public Procurement
A few months ago I tweeted that we were on the cups of watching the rule of EU law disappearing before our eyes here in the UK as Brexit approaches. If we consider the CJEU's enforcement of EU law to be the ultimate deterrent for non-compliance, such effect
Public Procurement
1. Commission publishes report on Remedies Directive 2. How can open data portals become sustainable? 3. UK Government publishes Open contracting data guidance 4. How do EU Member States provide procurement remedies access to foreign bidders (ie, extra EU/EEA bidders)? Turns out it depends. 5. UK Government Communications framework
Public Procurement
Episode #31 of the best (and only?) podcast about public procurement is up. This time the interviewee is Francesco Decarolis from the Einaudi Centre for Economics and Finance and we spent some quality time talking about reputation and corruption in public procurement, including how a contracting authority nudged contractors to
competition
For the last couple of years with my colleague Richard Leonard-Davies I have been teaching competition law here at Swansea University and doing so in a very traditional and straightforward way: lectures focused on plenty of case law and seminars where we drilled down the details. As competition law is
procurement
Kirsi-Maria Halonen has written an excellent report for the Swedish Competition Authority on the the issue of separate operational units and how they work in different jurisdictions: “ ” Full report available for download here.
Public Procurement
There's a few procurement related conferences coming up in the next few months: 1. Procurement Week 2017 - London, March 21-23 2. Procurement beyond price: Sustainability and CSR in public purchasing (Copenhagen, May 4th and 5th) 3. Global Revolution VIII - Nottingham, June 12-13 I will be chairing