Public Procurement
From next week onwards myself and Albert Sanchez-Graells from the How to Crack a Nut blog will try something different: we will be commenting on the new Public Contracts Regulation 2015, one section per working day, laying down a few key ideas that we think will be important to understand
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- Final Public Contracts Regulation 2015 As expected, Government rushed the transposition before the General Election. As expected as well, most of the transposition is a copy + paste affair of Directive 2004/14. Remember that these regulations do not cover Scotland as public procurement is a devolved power there. EDIT:
Public Procurement
As promised last week, the Conference on Framework Agreements organised by my good friend Dr. Marta Andrecka at the University of Aarhus, produced some interesting food for thought. Personally, I am very much a fan of small conferences with a limited number delegates (20-40) talking about a specific topic. Nothing
Public Procurement
I am talking next week about framework agreements at a Conference hosted by Aarhus University, so perhaps some random musings about my presentation are in order. 1. UK* regulation of framework agreements is barebones Both the outgoing Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and the incoming Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Draft) simply
Public Procurement
Public Procurement
Then you should see this week's BBC Panorama about Tesco's procurement practices. Only available in the UK unfortunately. I was aware that supermarkets made good money from "commercial deals" (ie, flogging suppliers) but was unaware of the size of the problem. It is big.
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1. "Don't give contracts or grants to companies without women in the boardroom" Once more, tying to use public procurement to solve problems not directly connected with it. 2. "Fence at border with Turkey to be built without public procurement" Who needs public procurement