Links I Liked [Public Procurement]
1. Some good examples of open data curbing corruption (anedoctal).
3. Related with the previous one...GDS Director says suppliers will be a component of Government-as-a-Platform.
1. Some good examples of open data curbing corruption (anedoctal).
3. Related with the previous one...GDS Director says suppliers will be a component of Government-as-a-Platform.
Why do we have thresholds in public procurement? Why do they exist? This is an answer I tried to answer a couple of times in the past and was not particularly happy with the result (here and here). In short, we have them today because…we have always had them.
The Commission published yesterday its Competitiveness Compass, providing some details of the political outlook for the Commission in the next year or so. With the upcoming revision of the substantive procurement Directives it is unsurprising that procurement was included in the document. The revision of the Directives gets called out
"Suppose that governments are the only buyers of a certain product. Each one wishes to encourage production in its own jurisdiction, and therefore lets it be known that a firm’s bid will be seriously considered only if the product is supplied from a local plant. There will then
For the first entry into this series about rethinking the procurement Directives, I am starting with the choice of legislative instrument since it shapes all regulatory decisions contained within as well as (hopefully) their enforcement. With this proposed change I am not arguing that changing legislative instrument will magically solve