Public Procurement
Jean Tirole published an article recently based on a keynote speech to the EU DG Comp conference from late last year on the implications of expanding the remit of public agencies such as central banks and competition authorities. In it, Tirole expresses his concern about the call for enlarging these
Public Procurement
Albert has already done a deep dive into the Commission's recent Communication on the Public Procurement Data Space, so for those of you that are yet to get acquainted with the Communication his blogpost is probably the best starting point. As for me, I will take a bird&
Public Procurement
“Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.” - Marc Andreesen Over the last decade I have become increasingly concerned with the move to bolt on ever more objectives to be pursued by public procurement, from the compliance requirements of exclusion grounds to
Public Procurement
As mentioned on yesterday's blogpost, one of the doubts I had on my mind was on the legality of the transposition of Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU into Portugal in its current draft of Article 370 of the Public Contracts Code. The Portuguese law makers have
Public Procurement
I spent some time over the last couple of weeks preparing my electronic procurement slides for some classes at the University of Belgrade and had a chance to look into eForms. My views about the lack of ambition of the current crop of electronic procurement related rules are not new,
Public Procurement
I was in Portugal for the last few days and the talk of town for the last week or so is yet another procurement case gone horribly wrong. Transtejo, the public company who runs the ferries in Lisbon acquired 10 electric ferries to renew its fleet with the Portuguese Audit
Legal
According to news reports, Netflix is preparing to impose a crackdown on the practice of what it calls 'password sharing', that is the use of the service by multiple people outside the same household. Looking at the reports it seems Netflix is going a lot further than simply
Public Procurement
The written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Procurement Bill is now available here. So far 17 submissions have been received, so let’s hope they are taken into account. Yours truly is available directly here and elaborates upon the points I made in
Public Procurement
Over the last few days, Portuguese media have been enthralled about a procurement case involving a stage for Pope Francis upcoming visit in August 2023. The country is hosting the World Youth Day with the main event being held at a space between the municipality of Lisbon and Loures. The
Public Procurement
The NAO has just published a report on the Department of Health and Social Care accounts for 2021-22 and it contains a number of interesting bits of information connected with COVID-19 procurement in the UK: “ ” The reduction in value is to be expected as the prices on these items came
Public Procurement
The Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement is hosting its bi-annual Interdisciplinary Public Procurement PhD Forum on 16 May 2023 and has an open call for abstracts for Ph.D candidates.The call is available here and it looks like a great opportunity for Ph.D students to meet their
Public Procurement
Thanks to a comment on my previous post about the Procurement Bill and some discussions last Friday at Nottingham, I think it is worth making some further reflections on transparency as it stands in the Procurement Bill. My main criticism is that for all the lofty ambitions from the Green