My good friends Marta Andhov and Willem Janssen launched a new public procurement podcast called Bestek to discuss contemporary procurement issues. The first episode is on COVID-19 responses and you can subscribe to it on any podcast platform (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Soundcloud).
Now if only I had the time to run a new season of the Public Procurement Podcast...
Under Directive 2014/24/EU contracting authorities have a suite of procurement procedures to choose from: open and restricted that can be used without any restrictions, competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation and innovation partnership which require some pre-conditions to be met and the negotiated procedure which is exceptional in
The UK government has finally published the new National Public Procurement Statement which will come into force in conjunction with the Procurement Act 2023 later this month. I am yet to dive into it properly, but it is not a million miles from what I had expected it to be.
"The case for competitive government purchasing is that the long-term impact on the price and quality of goods and services and the price, quality, and process of public works will provide direct benefits to public authorities. But, for each individual public authority, these benefits tend to be opaque, while
Despite ambitious goals back in 2014 and years of development since, the current legal framework has failed to deliver the transformational benefits originally envisioned for electronic procurement. In fact, it has actually become a barrier to meaningful digital innovation in public procurement processes. The Commission's recent initiatives in