Public Procurement
Bulgaria has apparently passed a law recently demanding all software purchased in the future by the country to be open source. This raises a couple of procurement related questions which are worth covering here. Art 58 of the E-Government Act states that: “ ” (Translation via Google Translate) It appears this law
Public Procurement
1. GC opens dangerous door to post-challenge / after-the-fact 'rationalisation' of public procurement evaluations (T-349/13) 2. Police searches a number of different local authorities in Spain due to corruption allegations (Spanish only). 3. Bulgaria passes law requiring open source software. Hmmm....or equivalent? Apparently what the law sets
Public Procurement
According to this GitHub post by Mark Hopson from 18F, the US Government is considering introducing a policy whereby custom made code should include (some) distribution rights and not only the right of use. In other words, the US Government is mulling requiring developers to grant a more expansive license
Public Procurement
1. France's transposition of Directive 2014/24/EU is almost done and Le Moniteur had access to the current working draft (French only). 2. A Spanish vision of public procurement of innovation (Spanish only). Plus, the national Government produced a new version of its innovative public procurement guide,
Public Procurement
Over the weekend Albert published an awesome post on the competition-related downsides of public contract registers. By and large I stand on the other side of the argument, but genuinely welcome my views (and any orthodoxy) to be challenged. Contrary to some colleagues or proponents of specific policies (social policies