% increase in the volumes of Govt tenders published each week this year in UK (30 day comparison). Indicates Govt preparations started at beginning of Feb, some 6 wks before Lock Down. pic.twitter.com/ZsbrQsEzEoApril 16, 2020
This is an imporant data point to help determine what Governments knew (or did not) on the run up to the lockdown and the liberal use of direct award mechanisms for the purchase of medical equipment.
Last week, in her speech on the political guidelines for her new term as Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen announced the following in relation to public procurement: "We must also make better use of public procurement – which accounts for 14% of EU GDP. A 1% efficiency gain in
I've just uploaded to SSRN my (draft) entry for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of EU Law. It's on general principles and here's the abstract: "Public procurement regulation within the EU is subject to a mixture of primary, secondary law and case law. This
A flipside of having commented on the recent Portuguese general election party manifestos is that I now have a record of proposals. None paid much attention to procurement and certainly no one suggested a profound revision of the Public Contracts Code. Fast forward a mere 4 months and that is
Out of the manifestos analysed, the Green Party one is by far the shortest. It is unsurprising then that there is not much to be found about procurement in it. The only proposal it contains is that they will campaign to bring the Prompt Payment Code into law and debar