Public Procurement
The Open Contracting Partnership and Spend Network have just published a report on the global expenditure in public procurement. The headline figure is that only 3% of the yearly USD13 trillion is published openly, that is information about the actual contract after the tender has concluded. Somehow, I cannot say
Public Procurement
1. Commission publishes report on Remedies Directive 2. How can open data portals become sustainable? 3. UK Government publishes Open contracting data guidance 4. How do EU Member States provide procurement remedies access to foreign bidders (ie, extra EU/EEA bidders)? Turns out it depends. 5. UK Government Communications framework
Links
1. 18F wants to move past building digital services for agencies 2. Clause for celebration: government acts on contract transparency 3. Open Contracting Data Standard API specification (GitHub) 4. Global Standards, Local Data: OCDS in Vietnam 5. Who has won the contract? - Identifying the bidders of public procurement processe.
Public Procurement
The British Government announced yesterday its plans to adopt a UK Open Government National Action Plan 2016-18 (NAP) which includes significant changes to procurement practice, aiming to make contracting "open by default." I am fully supportive of some of the ideas being pushed by the Government, namely the