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
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
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
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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
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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
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1. More info about the "Crown Marketplace" for local authorities. Not very juicy, but Central Government keeps pushing for lowering participation barriers. 2. Procurement of reactors in Hungary appears to fall prey of procurement rules. Although to be honest the biggest problem appears to be related with State
Public Procurement
1. Albert and Andrea Gideon have a new paper on the binding of universities to public procurement rules, using English universities as a case study. Albert also digs into AG Sharpston's recent opinion on restrictions to sub-contracting. 2. A nice Spanish civic engagement platform to keep track
Public Procurement
1. Legal Aid contract(s) go pear shaped with dozens (hundreds?) of challenges. Whistleblower claims process was a shambles. Apparently, the tender document imposed 17 questions (sub)-divided into 3/4 parts each. Do you really need 50 different questions to identify the best bid (not bidder!) for the contract(