Procurement Directives Revision
The EU procurement consultation shows low participation and a divide: public buyers want flexibility, businesses prefer clear rules. Shared trends include less focus on lowest price and competition, but results may be unrepresentative.
Public Procurement
The Labour party manifesto is long and detailed, but the key points related to procurement are quite brief and lacking detail. Nonetheless, the overarching question is that it remains to be seen if those Labour proposals can be achieved without amending the Procurement Act, although I imagine it will be
UK General Election 2024
As with the Portuguese general election back in March I will be analysing the manifestos of (some) political parties running in the UK’s general election. I shall cover the Conservatives, Labour, LibDems and Green as the only 4 parties currently with MPs and running in (roughly) the whole of
Public Procurement
1. Some local councils in Portugal take up to 2,000 days to pay their suppliers (Portuguese only). 2. Navarra adopts new (regional) public procurement law (Spanish only). 3. The Commission gets what the Commission measures. 4. Which buyers award contracts to Small Businesses? 5. CJEU backs automatic exclusion of
Public Procurement
1. Making Government business more accessible to SMEs - Two Years On. 2. Open Data and the fight against corruption in France (Report by Transparency International). 3. Is Joint Cross-Border Public Procurement Legally Feasible or Simply Commercially Tolerated? ~ A Critical Assessment of the BBG-SKI JCBPP Feasibility Study. 4. Donald Trump,
Public Procurement
1. USA open sources most of the code base it uses in its projects. 2. 18F is under flak for costing money (as if turning a profit was a usual yardstick to measure public sector services). 3. Part 5 of the Digital Marketplace vision. 4. Every 1% saved from chaotic
Public Procurement
I co-authored a blogpost with Albert published on Almacen de Derecho about a proposed policy by Ciudadanos to support innovative SMEs in Spain. Here's an excerpt: Ciudadanos, one of Spain’s recently emerged nation-wide political parties, recently submitted a non-legislative proposal to the Spanish Parliament with the aim
Legal
1. UK Government launches balanced scorecard for large projects. Not everyone is convinced. 2. Brexit Implications for UK Public Procurement one day workshop at the Leicester Business Festival. Not free, but organised by my good friend Richard Craven. 3. Netherlands Parliament makes open standards mandatory. 4. Spain gets jittery due
Public Procurement
1. The first season of the Public Procurement Podcast is almost over and interview #19 with Stephan Litschig is now up. The final interview will go live later this week. 2. A good post mortem of the Coalition's Government "SME friendly" public procurement policy. Interesting analysis
Public Procurement
1. Why don't Open Government Commitments get implemented? Some good points in there and relevant for public contract disclosure. 2. Pushing for open government in Africa. Open government is not a end all solution for corruption but raising the likelihood of corruption discovery certainly helps. 3. Open Data
Links
1. One more PPP episode is out. This time with Marta Andrecka from Aarhus University where we talk at length about framework agreements and how they are being used in the UK and Denmark. This is episode 8 of 20 and as usual, many thanks to the British Academy Rising
Public Procurement
Regulation 68 - Life-cycle costing Regulation 68 brings the possibility of contracting authorities using life-cycle costing in their procurement exercises to determine the best bid. By life-cycle costing it is meant the incorporation of costs into the awarding models that are usually not included in the assessment. In other words,