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1. Improving efficiency by building behavioural insights into an innovative NHS procurement portal (research project). Looks very interesting and I look forward to the findings. 2. Public procurement in Europe needs to enter the digital era. Good blogpost by Mara Mendes and Mihaly Fazekas on the need for better procurement
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1. Some good examples of open data curbing corruption (anedoctal). 2. Digital Marketplace to 'go wholesale'. Apparently the Central Government will also publish a Government Digital Strategy. 3. Related with the previous one...GDS Director says suppliers will be a component of Government-as-a-Platform. 4. France has just published
Public Procurement
1. Big changes at the hear of the Crown Commercial Service. Sally Collier is out and Malcom Harrison takes over as interim director. What will this mean for the overall approach to procurement taken by the CCS? 2. ANTICORRP publishes three reports on implementation, monitoring and enforcement of anti-corruption legislation
Public Procurement
1. The first season of the Public Procurement Podcast is almost over and interview #19 with Stephan Litschig is now up. The final interview will go live later this week. 2. A good post mortem of the Coalition's Government "SME friendly" public procurement policy. Interesting analysis
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1. NHS collaborates with a startup and rolls out product in only months to 10 regions in England. I wonder what procurement procedure they used... 2. Pre-commercial procurement can help public bodies innovate. Sure, it always did. As usual, the big, big issue is IP (and state aid). 3. UK
Public Procurement
1. Turkey pledges to update its public procurement law(s) in accordance with the current EU Public Procurement Directives. Angola also starts reviewing its public procurement law which is based (well, inspired at least) on the Portuguese Public Contracts Code. 2. Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offence for public
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1. 18F lends the contracting community a hand. 2. Corruption in Valencia, Schools edition (Spanish only). 3. Digital marketplace publishes case studies on how the service is benefiting users 4. Why the Open Contracting Standard matters. 5. CJEU pushes for flexibility for teaming agreements under EU public procurement rules. Albert
Public Procurement
1. Freedom of Information does not go far enough campaigners say. 2. DIGIWHIST publishes comprehensive mapping of EU tender data. Very long and detailed. I interviewed Mihaly Fazekas, one of the authors for the Public Procurement Podcast. 3. Speaking of reports, SpendNetwork put out a very nice one on local
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1. Netsweeper (Canadian company) helps Bahrain censor the Internet for a cool $1.2M. Well, you're either on the business of dealing with unsavoury regimes or not. 2. Panama plans to change its procurement law. 3. 15 decisions from the Conseil d'Etat published in 2015 on
Public Procurement
1. 18F (USA) tries micro-purchases again. This time with their own tool, instead of using GitHub. 2. Visualising €1.3 trillion worth of EU public procurement contracts. Wow. Great to see connections where they are not obvious. 3. The Death Star bankrupted the far, far away galaxy. Not really public
Public Procurement
1. Why don't Open Government Commitments get implemented? Some good points in there and relevant for public contract disclosure. 2. Pushing for open government in Africa. Open government is not a end all solution for corruption but raising the likelihood of corruption discovery certainly helps. 3. Open Data
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