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Pedro Telles

Oct 6, 2015

1. First International Workshop of the Learning Lab on Public Procurement and Human Rights will be held on November 19th in Geneva in Switzerland. Unfortunately I cannot make it. Related to this topic, an investigation made by DanWatch on forced labour in China's supply chains. Both via Claire Methven O'Brien.

2. UK's £1.2bn bill for drone that's seen 146 hours of active duty. From the "oh, dear" section. "Innovation" in defence procurement gone badly wrong.

3. Good innovation in procurement in Philadelphia with contractors forced to identify Toynbee Tiles. What are Toynbee Tiles? Glad you asked.

4. Kosovo looks into open data. Well, at least in local council.

5. Public procurement and the Internet of Things. Good post on Linkedin by Ross McCarthy about IoT and public procurement.

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On case C-652/22 Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret

The CJEU laid down early this week a fairly important judgment on third country access to procurement. On case C-652/22 Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret the Court concluded that economic operators from third countries neither party to the GPA nor with whom the EU has a deal are

All steam ahead with the revision of the procurement Directives

A couple of weeks ago a little birdie told me the Commission wanted to get the ball rolling on the revision of the procurement legal framework within the first 100 days of its term. Well, looks like they want to hit the ground running with the evaluation of the current

The Portuguese Audit Court finds systemic abuse of direct awards

Back in 2021 the then Portuguese government decided to make procurement more flexible as to ensure the Recovery and Resilience Facility money was spent quickly. In 2023 I warned about some of the risks that the reform had introduced here and here. Fast forward to 2024 and the Portuguese Audit

The Public Procurement Data Space is upon us

The Commission launched last week the PPDS, a service that is expected to aggregate data about public procurement in the EU. In essence it takes the data included in the eForms filled in by contracting authorities and makes it available to anyone. For example, it is possible to check for