Links
1. Some good examples of open data curbing corruption (anedoctal). 2. Digital Marketplace to 'go wholesale'. Apparently the Central Government will also publish a Government Digital Strategy. 3. Related with the previous one...GDS Director says suppliers will be a component of Government-as-a-Platform. 4. France has just published
Public Procurement
I have seen that there are a few procurement related events happening the next few months, so posting about them may be of use to the readers. All of them are free as far as I know. Academic Roundtable: Management and Operations of Major Public Contracts Legal Challenges and Opportunities
Public Procurement
1. Big changes at the hear of the Crown Commercial Service. Sally Collier is out and Malcom Harrison takes over as interim director. What will this mean for the overall approach to procurement taken by the CCS? 2. ANTICORRP publishes three reports on implementation, monitoring and enforcement of anti-corruption legislation
Public Procurement
1. The first season of the Public Procurement Podcast is almost over and interview #19 with Stephan Litschig is now up. The final interview will go live later this week. 2. A good post mortem of the Coalition's Government "SME friendly" public procurement policy. Interesting analysis
Links
1. NHS collaborates with a startup and rolls out product in only months to 10 regions in England. I wonder what procurement procedure they used... 2. Pre-commercial procurement can help public bodies innovate. Sure, it always did. As usual, the big, big issue is IP (and state aid). 3. UK
Public Procurement
I have been thinking for some time about the potential implications in terms of public procurement regulationif the UK leaves the EU. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that not much would change in the near future. Here are my reasons: 1. The public sector
open access
From the NY Times: Possibly the biggest barrier to open access is that scientists are judged by where they have published when they compete for jobs, promotions, tenure and grant money. And the most prestigious journals, such as Cell, Nature and The Lancet, also tend to be the most protective
Public Procurement
1. France's transposition of Directive 2014/24/EU is almost done and Le Moniteur had access to the current working draft (French only). 2. A Spanish vision of public procurement of innovation (Spanish only). Plus, the national Government produced a new version of its innovative public procurement guide,
Public Procurement
Phew. The inaugural Public Pocurement Early Career Researcher Conference was held last Friday at the Center for Trasnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London. And it was a blast. Thank you British Academy Rising Star Engagement Awards for making it happen! Due to changes on the original planning (it was supposed
really important stuff
I have a lot to be grateful and thankful over the last few weeks but will stick to the really important stuff this time around. As mentioned last week, I have been in paternity leave - 5 weeks early than anticipated. To say these were testing times would be an
Public Procurement
1. Today is the last day for registrations for the Public Procurement Early Career Researcher Conference which will be held this Friday at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. Attendance is free. 2. UK government’s data chief wants ‘data-as-a-service’ in Whitehall. 3. Californian hospitals suffer cyberattack. I
Public Procurement
1. Turkey pledges to update its public procurement law(s) in accordance with the current EU Public Procurement Directives. Angola also starts reviewing its public procurement law which is based (well, inspired at least) on the Portuguese Public Contracts Code. 2. Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offence for public