Public Procurement
1. China’s new Silk Road risks unravelling in Hungary. 2. Catalan construction companies investigated for possible cartel [Spanish only]. 3. The U.S. Government’s long road to adopting the cloud. 4. Buy American’ has little meaning in today’s world of globalized supply chains. 5. New Spanish procurement
Legal
1. UK Government launches balanced scorecard for large projects. Not everyone is convinced. 2. Brexit Implications for UK Public Procurement one day workshop at the Leicester Business Festival. Not free, but organised by my good friend Richard Craven. 3. Netherlands Parliament makes open standards mandatory. 4. Spain gets jittery due
Legal
The UK Government published recently a "balanced scorecard" for works, infrastructure and capital investment contracts valued above £10 million. Here's a snapshot from the press release: “ ” Albert has already put the finger where it hurts: it appears to be designed as a protectionist tool or at
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1. Public Works Slowdown Following Implementation of the New Italian Public Procurement Code. 2. Public Procurement Single Market scoreboard for 2015 is out. I think Albert has criticised the scoreboard in the past, but there is a measurement I find quite interesting - procedures with a single bidder. The figures
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I have a soft spot for technology and related topics. Over the last couple of years, most of my attention has been on the increasing speed at which new technologies enter the market and go on to establish a dominant position. This is not my idea and people way smarter
Public Procurement
2015 recap 2015 was a funny year and my first foray into academic blogging. I started this blog at the end of January while attending a conference on framework agreements organised by Dr. Marta Andrecka at Aarhus University. At the time my personal ambitions for the blog were quite limited
Legal
1. Watch out law students and recent graduates, Kim is looking for your job. No, not that Kim, but the AI system being deployed by Riverview Law. 2. All change, all change in access to the profession(s) in England and Wales. Plus, apparently the SRA is behind the idea
Legal
1. Wither LPC? Apparently the Legal Practice Course is on its last legs. Not surprising and frankly in my view very overdue. When former students tell me that the level of detail is similar to what was achieved in one of my modules, that indicates me there is no real
Legal
Yesterday Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT) held its yearly conference. This time around myself and Dr. Ana Da Silva did a presentation on the work with Startup Law, a module I created while at Bangor University (and to which I am very grateful for allowing me to use
Public Procurement
Honeywell uses reverse auctions to procure legal services by law firms: "Using reverse e-auctions to procure legal work isn’t entirely new, but companies have typically limited bidding to high-volume, non-critical work. Honeywell General Counsel Katherine Adams is using e-auctions on a larger scale, even for litigation. Law firms,
Legal
Uber was banned from operating in Portugal yesterday after an injunction was granted by a national court in addition to a €10,000 daily fine for contempt of court. This injunction was requested by the National Taxi Driver Association (ANTRAL) and although the details are sketchy as the sentence was
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1. Amazon third party seller is sued for price fixing. And the European Commission is also looking into competition on e-commerce. 2. Court of Appeal extends privacy law in England and Wales? 3. Facebook ignores EU data protection rules and tracks everyone. Not really news I suppose... 4. Microsoft is