Portugal
A flipside of having commented on the recent Portuguese general election party manifestos is that I now have a record of proposals. None paid much attention to procurement and certainly no one suggested a profound revision of the Public Contracts Code. Fast forward a mere 4 months and that is
Public Procurement
Prof. Sue Arrowsmith put out a whitepaper on the implications of Brexit for the UK's procurement rules. Albert has already provided a general comment on some important issues raised by the paper, such as the feasibility of a completely new procurement legal regime and what could be the
Public Procurement
Two new episodes of my Public Procurement Podcast are now up. In episode #3 I interview Frank Brunetta, the Canadian Procurement Ombudsman where we talk at length about his work as Ombudsman and what EU Member States could learn from his experience. He does have a lot experience indeed! For
Public Procurement
1. Blockchain can be used for supply chain tracking. It seems my idea last week of using some sort of blockchain technology to solve the reputation issue in public procurement and a decentralised contract repository/database is not as crazy as I originally thought. 2. Canada wakes up to open