Public Procurement
1. Microsoft deal helps NHS ramp up cyber security- oh, the irony. 2. Cabinet Office updates its tech spend controls processes 3. When to challenge public contract awards - lessons learned from the UK passport saga - easy, when you have reasonable grounds for it. 4. Did Your Company Make
Public Procurement
1. US General Services Administration prototypes blockchain. 2. PFI is bankrupting Britain. 3. Portuguese CPB officials under fire for accepting trips paid by economic operator (Portuguese only). 4. Critics see hole in Royal Navy’s new shipbuilding strategy. 5. Abnormally low tenders raise (legal) questions in Portugal (Portuguese only).
Public Procurement
'A lot' appears to be the answer: “ ” and more: “ ” Both quotes come from John Lehman, US secretary of the Navy under President Reagan. Note the push-back against cost-plus contracts and how they provide economic operators with the incentive to keep the costs ticking even if they are not
Public Procurement
1. Making Government business more accessible to SMEs - Two Years On. 2. Open Data and the fight against corruption in France (Report by Transparency International). 3. Is Joint Cross-Border Public Procurement Legally Feasible or Simply Commercially Tolerated? ~ A Critical Assessment of the BBG-SKI JCBPP Feasibility Study. 4. Donald Trump,
Public Procurement
The next instalment of the Public Procurement Podcast is up, this time a relaxed conversation with my good friend Baudouin Heuninckx, Chief Counsel of the Belgian Armed Forces Procurement Division and a part-time academic at the University of Nottingham and also the Belgian Royal Military Academy. He has just published
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It seems that even the New Republic is subject to corruption in defence procurement. This reminds me of my first presentation as a PhD student where I half-jokingly claimed the Death Star would not have been destroyed if only the Empire had followed a competitive dialogue.
Links
1. First International Workshop of the Learning Lab on Public Procurement and Human Rights will be held on November 19th in Geneva in Switzerland. Unfortunately I cannot make it. Related to this topic, an investigation made by DanWatch on forced labour in China's supply chains. Both via Claire
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1. What to do with old city buses? Not directly connected with public procurement but to take into account when one calculates life cycle costs today regarding the end of life of a product that is still 20 years away. 2. Varoufakis mentions corruption and procurement in his speech to
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1. Blockchain can be used for supply chain tracking. It seems my idea last week of using some sort of blockchain technology to solve the reputation issue in public procurement and a decentralised contract repository/database is not as crazy as I originally thought. 2. Canada wakes up to open
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Regulation 17 - Public contracts and design contests involving defence or security aspects which are awarded or organised pursuant to international rules Albert drew first blood today. Is entry is here. Regulation 17 establishes what sets of rules are applicable to a public contract or design contest which involve defence
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Regulation 16 - Mixed procurement involving defence or security aspects Back in week 1 we talked about the issue of mixed procurements and how Directive 2014/24/EU and the Public Contracts Regulations solve this issue. Regulation 4 includes the general rules for mixed contracts and Regulation 16 rules specific
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Regulation 15 - Defence and security Regulation 15 transposes Article 15 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This Regulation ensures that Part 2 applies to certain contracts within the field of defence and security. As mentioned before, defence and security benefit from exceptions to general