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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
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I have just uploaded to my SSRN repository a new paper which will be published later this year in the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL). The paper is focused on the relationship between the EU procurement thresholds and the GPA, arguing that the current threshold levels
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1. Ireland transposes Directive 2014/24/EU. According to my calculations we now have 9 out of 28 Member States which have transposed the Directive. Croatia may be the next one. 2. Austria is yet to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU. And so is Latvia. 3. A call for more
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Next Monday Albert is running an excellent 1 day programme on Regiopost and labour standards in public procurement at Bristol University. Attendance is free and the programme looks great. I look forward to seating in the audience relaxed enjoying the hard work of others instead of running around like a
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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. Albert dives into the discussion of what would happen to procurement rules if Brexit occurs. My own views are here. 2. Talgo wants RENFE to change the technical specifications for the supply of new high speed trains as the current one does not suit its offering (Spanish only). No,
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Out of the 28 Member States, which have transposed Directive 2014/24/EU so far? Transposed before deadline: Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK. Transposed after deadline: Ireland (May 2016, Italy (April 2016) Did not transpose yet: Czech Republic, Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden. Unknown (at least
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Time flies by and certainly the time for Member States to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU (as well as Directive 2014/23/EU and Directive 2014/25/EU) ends today. This is particularly important as a significant number of Member States is yet to conclude their transpositions into national legal
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It seems that even the New Republic is subject to corruption in defence procurement. This reminds me of my first presentation as a PhD student where I half-jokingly claimed the Death Star would not have been destroyed if only the Empire had followed a competitive dialogue.
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TheBritish Academy was kind enough to release some follow up funding for my British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, making a second season of the Public Procurement Podcast possible. Not much is changing for season 2. Episodes will last around 30 minutes and the whole season is again 20 episodes
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1. Why is so much ICT procurement not appearing on ContractsFinder? SpendMatters reports on some research carried out by Innopsis on this topic. The smoking gun - which I agree with - is framework agreements. As argued here before, framework agreements are a black hole in what concerns contract data. 2. MOD
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Back in 2011, the Cabinet Office instituted a new service called Mystery Shopper. This service would discreetly investigate complaints received from aggrieved participants in public procurement processes tendered by central and local purchasing bodies. Putting aside the fact that the name Mystery Shopper means something very specific in market research,