Public Procurement
As hinted a few times before, Albert and I have been busy setting up a joint Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Commentary over the last six months of so. As a recap, we concluded our "procurement tennis" match in the Summer 2015 and a few months later we got
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1. There's an "official" English translation of the Danish public procurement law. This reminds me of a project idea I had a couple of months ago of translating into English a number of very different public procurement laws. Thanks Carina for the heads up. 2. Court
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“ ” — https://promarket.org/antitrust-answer-rising-wealth-inequality/ Interesting discussion about the effects (or not) of competition law enforcement and inequality and how procurement in the US may function as redistribution mechanism. The problem with Crane's argument I suspect is that larger companies generate more profit but can pay a lower effective
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1. Company Owned by Former Kotayk Governor Wins 34 Million AMD in "Non-Bid" State Contracts. Oh the joys of lack of transparency and competition. 2. Agency connected to Conservative Party donor receives £3.9m Treasury contracts. 3. Public Procurement Trade-Offs Should Be Acknowledged and Addressed, Not Ignored. Agreed
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Bulgaria has apparently passed a law recently demanding all software purchased in the future by the country to be open source. This raises a couple of procurement related questions which are worth covering here. Art 58 of the E-Government Act states that: “ ” (Translation via Google Translate) It appears this law
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1. GC opens dangerous door to post-challenge / after-the-fact 'rationalisation' of public procurement evaluations (T-349/13) 2. Police searches a number of different local authorities in Spain due to corruption allegations (Spanish only). 3. Bulgaria passes law requiring open source software. Hmmm....or equivalent? Apparently what the law sets
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1. 18F wants to move past building digital services for agencies 2. Clause for celebration: government acts on contract transparency 3. Open Contracting Data Standard API specification (GitHub) 4. Global Standards, Local Data: OCDS in Vietnam 5. Who has won the contract? - Identifying the bidders of public procurement processe.
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Prof. Chris Yukins from George Washington University Law School has launched a new blog dedicated to international public procurement. Chris is a great writer and in my view his emphasis on international procurement is great. We need more people engaging with the public and writing with different points of view
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The innovation partnership is finally getting some use. The first tender (call?) was published only a couple of days ago on the Tenders Electronic Daily. The project is for a partnership looking to develop innovative means for overcoming elderly dehydration. The tender is being launched by the Market Development Fund
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I uploaded episode #22 of the Public Procurement Podcast to its website yesterday. The interivewee is Willem Janssen, Lecturer and PhD Researcher at the Public Procurement Research Centre of Utrecht University and Twente University. His PhD researches the influence of EU public procurement law on the performance of services by
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A couple of weeks ago I delivered a presentation on electronic procurement in Portugal at this year's Procurement Week conference in Bangor. As some of you have asked for the presentation, here it is embedded in all its glory. A downloadable PDF is available on the Presentations tab.
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1. There is another podcast about procurement. Great first episode of the Public Spend Forum Podcast with Dave Zvenyach from 18F. 2. Welsh government moves to eradicate slavery from its supply chains. 3. GDS updates code of practice for government digital projects. 4. Opening up Sao Paulo’s health innovation