Public Procurement
Over the last few days, Portuguese media have been enthralled about a procurement case involving a stage for Pope Francis upcoming visit in August 2023. The country is hosting the World Youth Day with the main event being held at a space between the municipality of Lisbon and Loures. The
Public Procurement
As mentioned last week, the Procurement Bill is back in the House of Commons and the Committee is looking for evidence submissions until February. In the meanwhile, these are some of my main reflections on the Bill as it stands at the moment. Michael Bowsher has also put some thoughts
Public Procurement
As promised yesterday, here's the second part of the fisking of the UK Government response to the NAO report on public procurement, focused on the "claims" section of its response: “ ” This is, frankly, pure obfuscation by means of mixing up completely different things together in the
Public Procurement
The National Audit Office has just published this morning its report about the COVID related procurement practice in the UK up to the end of July. Despite the cautious and factual language, the truth is that as the title to this entry indicates, it makes for a very grim reading.
Public Procurement
As mentioned earlier in the blog, Portugal decided to change some of the rules regulating the use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication. At the time I warned the changes made a weak system even weaker and prone to abuse. Yesterday I got wind on Twitter of a contract
Public Procurement
One of the benefits of blogging is the opportunity to get feedback quickly from your ideas so that you can reflect upon and refine them. A couple of days ago, Albert was kind enough to address my criticism of the Dyson ventilator contract and that poked me in a good
Public Procurement
The BBC published a newspiece yesterday stating that Dyson had been commissioned by the Government to produce 10,000 ventilators based on a new design that is yet to pass any medical tests. This comes a mere 10 days after the Government called for help from the private sector in
Public Procurement
This happened last week but completely forgot to mention it here. My most recent paper about the use of direct awards (negotiated procedure without notice) in Portugal is out in the newest number of the e-Publica journal. Here's the abstract: The Portuguese Revised Public Contracts Code misses an
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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
Public Procurement
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
Public Procurement
Regulation 32 - Negotiated procedure without prior publication In the previous legal regime the negotiated procedure was divided into procedures with or without publication. The old negotiated procedure with publication has been effectively upgraded to competitive procedure with negotiation we analysed in Regulation 29. In Regulation 32 we can find