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
Public Procurement
1. Commission publishes Report on the Remedies Directives effectiveness. I suspect this is the capping stone to justify not revising the Remedies Directives which, for me is a mistake. There is a significant difference between "speedy access to review mechanisms" and "speedy final decisions". And that
Public Procurement
Podcast #30 of the Public Procurement Podcast is up on the usual place. This time, the interviewee is Niels Uenk, part-time Researcher at the Public Procurement Research Centre a joint interdisciplinary research centre of the universities of Utrecht and Twente. Before joining academia Niels worked 5 years as international consultant
Links
1. Big tech's grip loosens on UK.gov IT spend. 2. World Bank puts out it "Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017" report. Albert has the lowdown of it. 3. The best way to build big is to start small. Agreed, way too many initiatives in public sector
Public Procurement
“” — http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=9057 Frankly, I find it incredible that almost 3 years after the Directives were published more than half the Member States are yet to transpose them fully. Plus, 11 Member States are yet to transpose a single Directive.
Public Procurement
“ ” — https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/jan/10/jeremy-corbyns-morning-interviews-politics-live As with Donald Trump a few weeks ago, where to start? Well, let's discounting the fact that we're still inside the EU and this measure would be deemed illegal as discriminatory and violating the principle
Public Procurement
1. Spanish region of Castilla-Leon used social clauses in 76% of its contracts in 2016 (Spanish only). No indication of what exact type of clauses were used, their cost or how they were monitored but in addition to social clauses proper the region has reserved contracts. 2. Lawsuit seeks to
Public Procurement
Just saying.
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1. Cristina Kirchner accused of corruption in Argentina. 2. Large Spanish construction companies rail against price heavy and price only projects (Spanish only). 3. Putting innovation at the heart of public procurement. A recipe for complexity. 4. Corruption charges in Portugal grow significantly between 2014 and 2016 (Portuguese only). Finger
Public Procurement
A few weeks ago a two page note by Deloitte stating the lack of a Government plan for Brexit was leaked to the Times. At the time, Government replied that the note had no credibility and one would assume the matter had ended there. But then today Deloitte apologises and