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The Sorbonne Business School and and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rome Tor Vergata have announce the 4th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Public Procurement to be held on October 25th and 26th in Paris. The call for papers is now out. The topics are: 1. Life cycle costing
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This happened last week but completely forgot to mention it here. My most recent paper about the use of direct awards (negotiated procedure without notice) in Portugal is out in the newest number of the e-Publica journal. Here's the abstract: The Portuguese Revised Public Contracts Code misses an
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So it seems, although the full description is "Senior Policy Adviser - Brexit - International Agreements." Although I have the feeling this is one of those positions where you will either end up having a ton of interesting work or none at all depending on how the Brexit
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Albert and I have just published a new paper on the impact of Brexit in the regulation of public procurement in the UK. The paper is called 'Examining Brexit Through the GPA’s Lens: What Next for UK Public Procurement Reform?' (2017) 47(1) Public Contract Law Journal
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Yesterday's budget announcement included a nice £20 million pot for GovTech projects: “” What can the Government do with this? If I were Innovate UK I would be setting up an incubator/accelerator programme for startups to develop solutions based on the new innovation partnership procedure so that both
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My good friends Marta Andrecka and Roberto Caranta are co-editing a book on developing life cycle criteria in public procurement and are accepting abstracts until December 31st. Here's their pitch: “” My reservations about social and environmental criteria notwithstanding, I am all for the internalisation of external costs associated
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The African Procurement Law Unit is organising next year the Third International Conference on Public Procurement Law Africa (1-2 November at the Century City Conference Centre & Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa). Here's the information available: “ ”
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1. Colombia could use some more competition in public procurement (Spanish only). Funny how Colombia understands that having one or only two bidders on each tender is a competition risk, whereas Portugal doesn't. 2. UK Government provides £20 million for govtech challenges. As I said before, probably a
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Continuing the short game of procurement tennis with Albert Sanchez-Graells on the Commission's Communication Making Public Procurement work in and for Europe COM(2017) 572 today I will be talking about the Commission's 6 strategic priorities for public procurement policy. These are: * Ensuring wider uptake of
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1. *That* audit report about public procurement Wales is getting some traction. 2. Royal Navy 'cannibalisation' on the rise. 3. Crown Commercial Service and Government Digital Service team up to simplify public sector contracts. (Great news!) 4. Some news about how low value contracts are dealt with under
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Another example how public procurement (connected) innovation can lead to the development of significant new areas of business, this time for the development of driverless cars: There was federal money at the inception of the self-driving vehicle, the same government largesse lurking in the origin stories of the internet, global-positioning
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1. ECJ rules on when a company owned by a contracting authority is governed by procurement rules (LitSpecMet UAB v Vilniaus lokomotyvu remonto debas UAB (C-567/15)). Albert's view is here. 2. Arriva pulls out from Welsh rail tender. As a former frequent user of Arriva train services