1. Corruption in public procurement: Siemens Greek Bribery Scandal by Penelope Giosa.
3. Contract headaches: The Long Beach Story
4. Quantifying the carbon footprint of the catering service of public schools
5. Transparency International (Spain) signs Integrity Pact with Madrid city council (Spanish only)
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
I've recently come across this document commissioned (I think) by the EIC Forum analysing the legal issues affecting innovation in public procurement. While it is not a final report, there was a barrier mentioned here that attracted my attention: the preference for price only contracts in procurement. Time
In March and April I will be taking part in a couple of procurement related events. First off, the ERA annual procurement conference, to be held in Trier on March 20th and 21st. I have not visited Trier in many years and am very much looking forward to this one.
The Commission kickstarted late last year the process to revise the public procurement Directives from 2014, launching a call for evidence and public consultation to run until March 7th. While I am not optimistic about the outcome of the legislative process and where we may be headed in the regulation