Ventilator Challenge UK
The UK's purchase of ventilators for the Covid pandemic is once more on the news. It seems a number of units purchased by the UK are now being sold at a fraction of the price via online auctions. Jo Maughan from the Good Law Project is quoted saying
Public Procurement
Stuff you cannot make up, by Gizmodo: “” By now my opinion about single source/direct award/request for quote(s) contracts should be well known to regular readers. This is yet another example of a decisions which may have been the correct one (or maybe not) but just by using
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This week, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggested a future Labour Government would bring PFI contracts in house. Details are sketchy (as always...) but the issue has been extensively covered in the media. Even the FT joined in the chorus with some pieces on the shortfalls of the scheme (here,
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One of Portugal's top newspapers investigated the direct award of a €5.179.873,44 public works project by the Lisbon City Council to Teixeira Duarte, one of the largest construction companies in the country. The piece is an example of how direct award (negotiated procedure without competition
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1. Belgian Govt. approves procurement of software to track down terrorists. Gosh I would love to see the tender specifications for this one. Was it an output/outcomes based spec? Or did Belgium just accidentally acquired Twitter? 2. Albert kickstarts a big thinking discussion about what procurement should look like.
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Last month, Vote Leave came up with some "new research" on the terrible, terrible plight inflicted by EU procurement rules on UK contracting authorities (well, those of England, Wales and Northern Ireland I suppose). Colin Cram put out a very polite rebute in The Guardian earlier this week,
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Well, in Slovakia we have seen (via Transparency International) that around 10% of the population goes into the procurement portal to check what is being purchased by whom and from what suppliers. In Portugal numbers are probably not as high, although every now and again the local press decides to
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1. PPP/PFI risks (in Spanish). I would add to the list information asymmetry and regulator capture. Very good points nonetheless. 2. Damages and re-tendering awarded in Woods Building Services vs Milton Keynes Council [2015] EWHC 2172 (TCC). Interestingly enough although Judge Coulson recognised that the decision should be set