Public Procurement
The Portuguese government presented last week its 32 point anti-corruption plan. If you remember the coalition’s electoral manifesto, fighting corruption was one of its planks. Four of the 32 proposals are directly connected with public procurement, but the idea of hardening the rules on conflict of interest seems to
Public Procurement
Labour announced at its conference last week it was considering creating a watchdog to deal with the allegations of corruption connected with Covid support schemes and contracts. In addition it seems Labour also wants to reform the debarment and exclusion grounds for participation in public procurement. Whereas I am not
Public Procurement
The UK adopted in late 2017 a anti-corruption strategy for the 2017-2022 period. One year on from the publication of the original strategy, an update has just been released. Reducing corruption in public procurement and grants was and remains a key objective of the strategy, but whereas the original strategy
Public Procurement
1. Labour's electoral manifesto commits to keep the UK in the Government Procurement Agreement. Well, to accede to the GPA in my view. 2. Plaid Cymru's manifesto calls for more local procurement. Well, if the GPA is part of the discussion, then there is no real
Public Procurement
1. Spanish Council of State gives its blessing to the new Public Sector Contracts Law. The law is yet to be published and coming into force though. 2. SpendNetwork wants to open up tender notice data and making it available under the Open Contracting Data Standard. 3. Albert comments on