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Pedro Telles

04 Apr 2016

1. Improving efficiency by building behavioural insights into an innovative NHS procurement portal (research project). Looks very interesting and I look forward to the findings.

2. Public procurement in Europe needs to enter the digital era. Good blogpost by Mara Mendes and Mihaly Fazekas on the need for better procurement data (and standards...) in the EU.

3. World Bank's Key Findings of Benchmarking Public Procurement 2016.

4. Ofcom turns to the Digital Marketplace to speed digital transformation. Fascinating example of in house procurement.

5. Welsh Government spends £100k over three years on Twitter account management. But hey, it's a "reputable and reliable service from a company that has been through the Official Journal of the European Union procurement process." Whatever that means.

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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