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Out of the 28 Member States, which have transposed Directive 2014/24/EU so far? Transposed before deadline: Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK. Transposed after deadline: Ireland (May 2016, Italy (April 2016) Did not transpose yet: Czech Republic, Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden. Unknown (at least
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Time flies by and certainly the time for Member States to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU (as well as Directive 2014/23/EU and Directive 2014/25/EU) ends today. This is particularly important as a significant number of Member States is yet to conclude their transpositions into national legal
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It seems that even the New Republic is subject to corruption in defence procurement. This reminds me of my first presentation as a PhD student where I half-jokingly claimed the Death Star would not have been destroyed if only the Empire had followed a competitive dialogue.
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TheBritish Academy was kind enough to release some follow up funding for my British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, making a second season of the Public Procurement Podcast possible. Not much is changing for season 2. Episodes will last around 30 minutes and the whole season is again 20 episodes
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1. Why is so much ICT procurement not appearing on ContractsFinder? SpendMatters reports on some research carried out by Innopsis on this topic. The smoking gun - which I agree with - is framework agreements. As argued here before, framework agreements are a black hole in what concerns contract data. 2. MOD
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Back in 2011, the Cabinet Office instituted a new service called Mystery Shopper. This service would discreetly investigate complaints received from aggrieved participants in public procurement processes tendered by central and local purchasing bodies. Putting aside the fact that the name Mystery Shopper means something very specific in market research,
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1. Improving efficiency by building behavioural insights into an innovative NHS procurement portal (research project). Looks very interesting and I look forward to the findings. 2. Public procurement in Europe needs to enter the digital era. Good blogpost by Mara Mendes and Mihaly Fazekas on the need for better procurement
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The difference between intra EU trade and direct cross-border procurement levels has puzzled me for year. Whereas the first hovers at around 15% (speaking of memory here), the second is stuck at around 3.7%,* a figure 5 times smaller. Why? Should they not be at least in the
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According to this GitHub post by Mark Hopson from 18F, the US Government is considering introducing a policy whereby custom made code should include (some) distribution rights and not only the right of use. In other words, the US Government is mulling requiring developers to grant a more expansive license
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Season 1 of the Public Procurement Podcast wrapped up earlier this month, so now is the time to reflect on the experience. In one year I since getting the go ahead, the website went up and so did 20 interesting interviews with (mostly) early career researchers in public procurement. Here
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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
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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