1. Netsweeper (Canadian company) helps Bahrain censor the Internet for a cool $1.2M. Well, you're either on the business of dealing with unsavoury regimes or not.
2. Panama plans to change its procurement law.
3. 15 decisions from the Conseil d'Etat published in 2015 on public procurement (French only).
4. 2015: the year the data revolution got serious.
5. Cabinet Office spend data over £25,000 was updated in December.
I have a new paper out on electronic public procurement in the EU, focused on the failures of the current legislative framework with some ideas of what should be done in the upcoming revision of the procurement Directives. Here's the abstract: This paper critiques the EU’s electronic
The Danish EU Presidency has put out its programme for the upcoming semester when Denmark will hold the presidency of the Council of the European Union. The programme is called "A strong Europe in a changing world" but when it comes down to public procurement we are not
I have just uploaded to SSRN a new working paper on the failure of the successive rounds of Directives in solving the direct cross-border issue. In short, home bias is as almost as present today as it was in the 1960s. For this one I dabbed a bit outside the
The European Commission put out last week a non-paper on the interpretation and application of the Kolin and Qingdao cases for economic operators coming from third countries. This is a fairly cautious document and probably the most the Commission can do at the moment and in this Q&A