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.
On my post earlier today I mentioned not being able to access the national procurement portal. As it happens, I can if I use a Mac or an iOS device...but not on my linux machines. So, the portal is up and available for most, at least. Portugal publishes a
In the fall of 2025 I got wind that the Portuguese government was going to review the Public Contracts Code in short notice. This revision was described as a thorough affair and not a simple nip and tuck. In a discussion on Linkedin I was assured the draft would be
Work for long enough in a field and you will watch the same debates happen time and time again. This time around it is the idea of local preferences in public procurement. Now, for the particular debate I cannot say having been part of it multiple times, but some of
Iwas challenged by my good friend Marko Turudic on Linkedin to pick one (and only one) article of the public procurement Directive to change in the upcoming revision. I am going to be very obvious on my choice by picking Article 4 - thresholds. It should come to no surprise