Public Procurement
The Letta report on the single market (Much more than a market) released yesterday contains some ideas for public procurement, namely achieving higher integration for the public procurement market while realising strategic goals. These are explored in detail in a reasonably sized section called 'A more European and more
Public Procurement
I have been considering writing or not about the current situation with the COVID-19 vaccines in the EU. First, the AstraZeneca row with the Commission and Member States and second, the difficulties in scaling up production. As for the first, now is not the moment to discuss the topic and
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I’m delighted to be speaking on Friday at the launch of the Buying into the Future report by PUBLIC. I will be part of a panel on ‘How can Government do more to buy from startups and innovators?’ with Tanya Filer, Digital State Lead - Bennet Institute for Public
Public Procurement
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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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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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. Chicago wants to modernise procurement. 2. Vigo Council migrates to Linux. 3. Public procurement: making the world a better place - one order at a time. 4. Lessons learned from attempting to fix tech procurement. 5. Cladding for Grenfell Tower was the cheaper, more flammable option.
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1. Cristina Kirchner accused of corruption in Argentina. 2. Large Spanish construction companies rail against price heavy and price only projects (Spanish only). 3. Putting innovation at the heart of public procurement. A recipe for complexity. 4. Corruption charges in Portugal grow significantly between 2014 and 2016 (Portuguese only). Finger
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1. Government of Western Australia shows Minimum Viable Product version of its new online procurement portal. Great to see a Government taking up on cheaper, more agile ways of developing services instead of building the whole widget without external feedback. Well done. 2. Is raising the micro-purchase threshold from $3,
Public Procurement
I missed Theresa May's mention yesterday on its CBI speech that it wants to change procurement and get more innovation into it, probably in similar tones to what myself and Albert questioned in Spain recently. Albert has some serious concerns about the whole idea: “ ” As I have been
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1. USA open sources most of the code base it uses in its projects. 2. 18F is under flak for costing money (as if turning a profit was a usual yardstick to measure public sector services). 3. Part 5 of the Digital Marketplace vision. 4. Every 1% saved from chaotic
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I co-authored a blogpost with Albert published on Almacen de Derecho about a proposed policy by Ciudadanos to support innovative SMEs in Spain. Here's an excerpt: Ciudadanos, one of Spain’s recently emerged nation-wide political parties, recently submitted a non-legislative proposal to the Spanish Parliament with the aim