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
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1. Emergency procurement for COVID-19: buying fast, open and smart 2. 5 procurement strategies for navigating the COVID-19 crisis from around the world 3. Portuguese contracting authorites have awarded €58M worth of COVID-19 related contracts directly [Portuguese only and gated] 4. Are the Albanian Government’s Secret Procruement Contracts Legal?
Public Procurement
Long time readers of the blog know where I sit in the divide of more or less data being made available about procurement processes (more, of course). Having said that, I’m not impervious to the competition law arguments regarding the impact more data has on cartel formation/stability. But
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Great writeup about the excellent work being done on open contracting in Paraguay: “” I'm glad they talked with my good friend Juan Pane, the engine behind a good deal of the solutions deployed in Paraguay. I was very impressed by the quality of the work done in Paraguay
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1. Public procurement is making the world a better place—one order at a time. 2. Learning Insights: Open contracting – a helping hand in Nepal. 3. The U.S. Has Forgotten How to Do Infrastructure. 4. Spain will create procurement oversight body. (Spanish only) 5. Trump's 'Buy
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1. Development Gateway and the Open Contracting Partnership are launching a series of public procurement assessments in five West African countries. 2. Competition and Markets Authority targets bid-riggers. 3. The Digital Marketplace vision: part 4. 4. One size fits all? A critique of standardisation in public procurement. 5. Albert criticises
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1. There is a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) starting soon on PPPs [French only]. 2. Italian Army switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice and saves money. I regularly use LibreOffice 5 and the conversion between both office suites works quite well these days. 3. Open contracting at the UK
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1. 18F is developing a a modern shared digital authentication platform. Good idea, but the pitfalls are on the execution and take up as we've seen with so many previous attempts. 18F is also sporting a gorgeous new look. 2. For start-ups, the path to public procurement contracts
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
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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
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1. 18F lends the contracting community a hand. 2. Corruption in Valencia, Schools edition (Spanish only). 3. Digital marketplace publishes case studies on how the service is benefiting users 4. Why the Open Contracting Standard matters. 5. CJEU pushes for flexibility for teaming agreements under EU public procurement rules. Albert
Public Procurement
1. Legal Aid contract(s) go pear shaped with dozens (hundreds?) of challenges. Whistleblower claims process was a shambles. Apparently, the tender document imposed 17 questions (sub)-divided into 3/4 parts each. Do you really need 50 different questions to identify the best bid (not bidder!) for the contract(