Public Procurement
The Open Contracting Partnership and Spend Network have just published a report on the global expenditure in public procurement. The headline figure is that only 3% of the yearly USD13 trillion is published openly, that is information about the actual contract after the tender has concluded. Somehow, I cannot say
Public Procurement
Ian Makgill from SpendNetwork and OpenOpps ran a twitter thread a few days ago based on a presentation he did on procurement data analysis. Thread / I recently gave a presentation with @CivTechForum highlighting some of the key issues in public procurement. I thought I'd run through some of
Public Procurement
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
Public Procurement
1. Freedom of Information does not go far enough campaigners say. 2. DIGIWHIST publishes comprehensive mapping of EU tender data. Very long and detailed. I interviewed Mihaly Fazekas, one of the authors for the Public Procurement Podcast. 3. Speaking of reports, SpendNetwork put out a very nice one on local
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1. What public procurement documents need to be published upfront? Myself and Albert have dabbed on this in the past, but the problem should have been solved directly in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. But hey, as usual "it's the Directive's fault for not being