Public Procurement
The PPRG has recently published a new edition of its extensive public procurement bibliography, the first from 2011 and with 4,000 new entries. The PDF is available here. Having modestly contributed to the first edition when I was a Ph.D student at Nottingham a decade ago, it is
Public Procurement
EU and Mexico have concluded negotiations for a new trade agreement after finally agreeing upon the exact scope and reciprocal opening of public procurement markets. This new trade agreement will replace the existing one from 1997. And, for once, the last technical issue to be solved was public procurement.
COVID-19
The Office of Government Procurement in Ireland (hat tip to Ross!) has published an instruction note on how to directly award contracts in situations of extreme urgency, absence of competition/protection of exclusive rights, using the standard procedure with accelerated timescales, light touch regime or extending/modifying a contract during
Public Procurement
My good friend Chris Yukins from George Washington University is running an online colloquium on the challenges raised by COVID-19 in public procurement for this coming Wednesday at the following times: * Pacific US – 9:00 * Mountain US – 10:00 * Central US – 11:00 * Eastern US – 12 noon * United Kingdom/Ireland
Public Procurement
The National Audit Office has just published a new report into the planning of HS2. Its findings provide food for thought, namely that its cost is likely to rise from the funded £55 billion to £88 billion. But it also points the finger to the Government and HS2 Ltd for
Public Procurement
From an overall interesting article, but with these two procurement tidbits: Some transit experts speculate that what’s driving up the costs of building new elevators is that the MTA’s procurement process is largely uncompetitive. “They have really hyper-detailed specs for everything,” said Alon Levy, a transit writer and
Public Procurement
Turns out part of the answer is connected with procurement, namely the fixation on the sticker price vs a lifecycle costing analysis: When cities decide to implement electric buses, Gorguinpour says the cities too focus too much on those upfront costs and not enough on the “life cycle cost.” That
Public Procurement
Well, it looks like today is transparency day in the blog as the NAO has just published a report on the spend by Central Government with consultants for Brexit related matters. Predictably it makes for grim reading and here’s a bit of the press release (the final paragraph): The
Public Procurement
Myself and Albert have just made available on SSRN a new working paper on Brexit and public procurement, focused mostly on the transition agreement. As usual, we welcome comments and criticism. Here's the abstract: “ ”
Public Procurement
It seems Gemalto, a French company has won the contract to produce the UK passports post-Brexit. FT has the scoop: "Gemalto, a security company based in Paris, is expected to win a tender process ahead of the UK’s De La Rue, one person briefed on the decision said.
Public Procurement
The Commission published on March 19th a revised Draft Agreement on the UK's withdrawal from the EU, conveniently colour coded green, yellow and white to denote different levels of agreement between the parties. Green means the text has been agreed but is still subject to technical legal revision,
Public Procurement
Continuing the short game of procurement tennis with Albert Sanchez-Graells on the Commission's Communication Making Public Procurement work in and for Europe COM(2017) 572 today I will be talking about the Commission's 6 strategic priorities for public procurement policy. These are: * Ensuring wider uptake of