Public Procurement
Sam Bowman and Stian Westlake have just published a pamphlet about what the right should be doing in terms of economic thinking. I have not read it fully, but spent some quality time with the procurement section, which focus on procurement of innovation. Bowman and Westlake do not seem overly
Public Procurement
The European Commission has just published earlier today a lengthy guidance document on procurement of innovation. It is welcome since procurement of innovation is the kind of approach (policy? idea?) that is useful mostly for the top 1% of procurers and even then, just some of the time. As such,
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,
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1. Portuguese Audit Court unimpressed with PFI/PPP hospital (Portuguese only). The Audit Court analysed the first couple of years of the Loures privately managed hospital in Portugal and did not find significant management improvements in comparison with the best publicly managed hospitals. Its management is better than average for
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1. My old job at Bangor University is up for grabs. Excellent place to start an academic career in public procurement...if you are motivated and willing to work very hard. Dermot is a great boss for those first years when we're freshly out of the Ph.D
Public Procurement
Regulation 31 - Innovation Partnership In Regulation 31 we can find the new innovation partnership "procedure" introduced in Article 31 of Directive 2014/24/EU. The purpose of this new "procedure" is to allow for the public and private sector to establish partnerships with the aim
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1. More data about England's Mystery Shopper Service. I still think it should morph into a proper Procurement Ombudsman a la Canadian. 2. NESTA's 6 ideas how procurement stifles innovation. Sound about right but for me reasons 4 (incentives) and 6 (skills) are the most important.