Belgium
A couple of days ago I was contacted by Joren Vuylsteke, a PhD candidate at KU Leuven. He was wondering what had happened with the Portuguese train tender that garnered so much attention a couple of years ago. Regarding that one, well, nothing has happened. We still do not have
Public Procurement
The answer is: not all and not all of the time irrespective of the clear legal commands to do so. OpenOpps looked into the practice for contracts published on ContractsFinder and this is what they found out: “” As I suspected, local Government is a lot worse: “” As the data analysis
Public Procurement
1. Albert comments on the recent European Court of Auditors Special Report on procurement. Report itself is here. 2. Procurement corruption, Argentina style. 3. Bad procurement, custom software edition. 4. A friendly reminder that (some) contracting authorities in the UK are expected to publish their contract information on Contracts Finder.
Links
1. Smart contracts are coming to Wall Street, courtesy of the block chain. This is the first concrete example I have seen of the blockchain being used as a contract ledger. I stand by earlier comments that this technology would be great in procurement. 2. European Commission makes procurement data