Public Procurement
1. How's Helsinki bringing sustainability into public procurement? 2. EFTA Surveillance Authority publishes decision on public procurement. 3. Key findings from Suvi Taponen research "From Outsourcing Problems to Effective Service Management". Podcast here and good luck for the thesis defense! 4. Albert reviews some recent decisions
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A couple of weeks ago I delivered a presentation on electronic procurement in Portugal at this year's Procurement Week conference in Bangor. As some of you have asked for the presentation, here it is embedded in all its glory. A downloadable PDF is available on the Presentations tab.
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1. Procurement Week Bootcamp in Bangor next week (09-10 June) 2. VIIth International Conference Contracts, Procurement, and Public-Private Arrangements, Paris June 14th and 15th. Price unknown and hat tip to Piotr for the mention. 3. Taking stock of NHS governance after the 2013 reforms: Public procurement... Albert is running another
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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.
Public Procurement
At Procurement Week this coming Thursday I will be chairing a procurement roundtable on the transposition of Directive 2014/24/EU into various Member States and which includes the following participants: • Nick Sullivan - Value Wales Procurement, Welsh Government, Wales, UK • Sally Collier, Crown Commercial Services, UK • Isabel Rosa -
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1. Apparently I want to overthrow the current procurement framework. Well, sort of. (Will post heretic text here later today or tomorrow) 2. There is (was?) an enterprising trade in fake social security declarations/certificates in Portugal. (Portuguese only) A few thousand euros was all it took to get a
Public Procurement
The full programme for Procurement Week 2015 is now up. As in previous years, attendance is free (as in beer) but places are disappearing fast with 2/3 already gone. If you are interested in the new Public Procurement Directives or what changes the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 will bring,