Public Procurement
I forgot to cover this a few weeks ago, but we have new thresholds in place since January 1st: Works: €5,225,000 (was €5,186,000) Central services and supplies: €135,000 (was €134,000) Sub-central services and supplies: €209,000 (was €207,000) Utilities and defence: €418,00
Public Procurement
I have given a quick look to both the new Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and the accompanying Policy Note from the Scottish Government. At first sight, the differences between the Scottish Regs and the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 are smaller than I originally anticipated them to be. Having said
Public Procurement
1. 18F (USA) tries micro-purchases again. This time with their own tool, instead of using GitHub. 2. Visualising €1.3 trillion worth of EU public procurement contracts. Wow. Great to see connections where they are not obvious. 3. The Death Star bankrupted the far, far away galaxy. Not really public
Public Procurement
The Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/7 of 5 January 2016 establishing the standard form for the European Single Procurement Document was published yesterday, moving forward the implementation of a hallmark change introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU. The Regulation 2016/7 includes as an annex a model of the
Public Procurement
2015 recap 2015 was a funny year and my first foray into academic blogging. I started this blog at the end of January while attending a conference on framework agreements organised by Dr. Marta Andrecka at Aarhus University. At the time my personal ambitions for the blog were quite limited
Public Procurement
1. Why don't Open Government Commitments get implemented? Some good points in there and relevant for public contract disclosure. 2. Pushing for open government in Africa. Open government is not a end all solution for corruption but raising the likelihood of corruption discovery certainly helps. 3. Open Data
Public Procurement
It was only a question of time, but I am glad that in the USA venture capital is finally paying attention to the opportunity of serving the Government market. There is a recent fund investing specifically in startups interested in serving the Government called GovTechFund. I for one, welcome this
Public Procurement
We will be holding a one day conference for Early Career Researcher Public Procurement Conference at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London on March 4th. 10 Early Career Researchers will have the opportunity to present their research on a non-threatening environment, benefiting from presenting at a leading international
Public Procurement
The General Court decided recently Case T-553/13, European Dynamics Luxembourg and Evropaïki Dynamiki v Joint undertaking Fusion for Energy, EU:T:2015:918. Albert wrote about it in detail here. Although the case pertained to a cascade framework agreement, unfortunately, the crux of the matter was not the cascade
Legal
1. Watch out law students and recent graduates, Kim is looking for your job. No, not that Kim, but the AI system being deployed by Riverview Law. 2. All change, all change in access to the profession(s) in England and Wales. Plus, apparently the SRA is behind the idea
Links
I should have called this the "things that do not work" edition... 1. Trams in Washington do not run, even after $200M being spent. 2. E-Borders programme costs UK £800m and does not work. Well, technically it does, but not to the level expected. 3. Airwave withdraws injunction
Links
1. Evaluation of tenders after the expiry of their validity does not annul tender for EU public contracts (T-553/13). Albert comments on case T-553/13. 2. UK Government spent 27.1% of procurement spend with SMEs. Full dataset here. It is all on the way how you count it: