Public Procurement
As mentioned last week, the Procurement Bill is back in the House of Commons and the Committee is looking for evidence submissions until February. In the meanwhile, these are some of my main reflections on the Bill as it stands at the moment. Michael Bowsher has also put some thoughts
Public Procurement
The new UK Procurement Bill is now back in the House of Commons after passing through the House of Lords. The current version of the bill as brought from the the House of Lords is here available here. Before the legislative train reaches its end, there is still time to
Public Procurement
The last couple of weeks have been consumed with news about Baroness Mone and her role in securing PPE contracts for MedPro (here, here, here, here, here). Most of the discussion has (rightly) been about the ultimate beneficiary of MedPro and associated tax implications. For me the interest on MedPro&
Public Procurement
Last Friday we had the Into the Northern Light conference, celebrating the life of Steen Treumer and the launch of this book in his memory. It was beautiful and poignant at times, much better than the equivalent in Portugal. Waiting in the panel for my turn to speak was hard
Higher Education
Back in 2020, I wrote a post on this blog stating that GPT-3 was the beginning of the end for academic essays. Until recently, I assumed the bells would toll once GPT-4 came around in the near future, perhaps in early 2023. I was wrong. Last week OpenAI launched ChatGPT,
Legal
The University of Copenhagen is organising a conference on December 2nd in memory of Prof. Steen Treumer who would be 57 that day. In addition to yours truly, the conference is packed with a number of top notch speakers and it is one of those rare occasions where it is
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded a new paper to SSRN on the existing and potential use cases for blockchain in public procurement. Here’s the abstract: “ ” And that’s a wrap for this academic year, roll on holidays.
Public Procurement
In the context of the ongoing reform of public procurement rules in the UK, the government has published a policy paper on its ambitions regarding transparency. As usual, Albert was very quick off the gates and his views are expressed here. Those include some fair criticism in terms of the
Public Procurement
A few weeks ago I published this table with the usage of competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation and innovation partnership from the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2021: The obvious take away message from the table is that that the war for the flexible procurement procedure of
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded a new paper to SSRN reflecting on the 18 years of competitive dialogue: “ ” This paper will published in the forthcoming book published in Steen Treumer’s memory and as far as publications go, for me this was a veritable labour of love which I am grateful
Public Procurement
From a new(ish) paper by Francesco Decarolis and Cristina Giorgiantonio on corruption red flags in public procurement: “” As I have said many times, even as a proponent of using most economically advantageous tender criteria in public procurement, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Public Procurement
Having spent most of 2020 criticising the procurement response of the UK Government to the covid-19 pandemic, those decisions are now coming home to roost. Back in February we found out that £8.7B of the £12.1B of PPE purchased in 2020-21 was 'lost' and now we