Public Procurement
1. GC opens dangerous door to post-challenge / after-the-fact 'rationalisation' of public procurement evaluations (T-349/13) 2. Police searches a number of different local authorities in Spain due to corruption allegations (Spanish only). 3. Bulgaria passes law requiring open source software. Hmmm....or equivalent? Apparently what the law sets
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1. 18F wants to move past building digital services for agencies 2. Clause for celebration: government acts on contract transparency 3. Open Contracting Data Standard API specification (GitHub) 4. Global Standards, Local Data: OCDS in Vietnam 5. Who has won the contract? - Identifying the bidders of public procurement processe.
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1. There is another podcast about procurement. Great first episode of the Public Spend Forum Podcast with Dave Zvenyach from 18F. 2. Welsh government moves to eradicate slavery from its supply chains. 3. GDS updates code of practice for government digital projects. 4. Opening up Sao Paulo’s health innovation
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1. There is a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) starting soon on PPPs [French only]. 2. Italian Army switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice and saves money. I regularly use LibreOffice 5 and the conversion between both office suites works quite well these days. 3. Open contracting at the UK
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1. Procurement Week Bootcamp in Bangor next week (09-10 June) 2. VIIth International Conference Contracts, Procurement, and Public-Private Arrangements, Paris June 14th and 15th. Price unknown and hat tip to Piotr for the mention. 3. Taking stock of NHS governance after the 2013 reforms: Public procurement... Albert is running another
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1. European Commission publishes final version of its much awaited Notice on the notion of State aid as referred to in Article 107(1) TFEU. Albert's comments are here. 2. UK Government consults on changes to how councils publish procurement data. Consultation is available here. 3. Doubts over
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1. Public Procurement: Challenging traditional sourcing models. Free one day conference organised by the University of Sussex on June 1st. 2. GovLab is running a mooc on procurement and technology for people with actual projects to implement. Looks great if probably too US focused. 3. Court of Justice has an
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1. 18F is developing a a modern shared digital authentication platform. Good idea, but the pitfalls are on the execution and take up as we've seen with so many previous attempts. 18F is also sporting a gorgeous new look. 2. For start-ups, the path to public procurement contracts
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1. Ireland transposes Directive 2014/24/EU. According to my calculations we now have 9 out of 28 Member States which have transposed the Directive. Croatia may be the next one. 2. Austria is yet to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU. And so is Latvia. 3. A call for more
Public Procurement
1. Spanish Council of State gives its blessing to the new Public Sector Contracts Law. The law is yet to be published and coming into force though. 2. SpendNetwork wants to open up tender notice data and making it available under the Open Contracting Data Standard. 3. Albert comments on
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1. Albert dives into the discussion of what would happen to procurement rules if Brexit occurs. My own views are here. 2. Talgo wants RENFE to change the technical specifications for the supply of new high speed trains as the current one does not suit its offering (Spanish only). No,
Public Procurement
1. Why is so much ICT procurement not appearing on ContractsFinder? SpendMatters reports on some research carried out by Innopsis on this topic. The smoking gun - which I agree with - is framework agreements. As argued here before, framework agreements are a black hole in what concerns contract data.