Public Procurement
Myself and Albert Sanchez-Graells had a nice chat yesterday about the public procurement policy proposals in the LibDems, Labour and Conservative manifestos. We talked about buy british, outsourcing, NHS, sustainable procurement and data. This General Election 2019 Special podcast is available here in the usual home of the Public Procurement
Public Procurement
Last week, Albert fired the starting gun on the discussion regarding the climate change impact of academic air travel and put a marker on the sand regarding his participation on any future conferences. Long story short, he is putting himself out of contention for conference engagements that imply flying. I
Public Procurement
Episode #31 of the best (and only?) podcast about public procurement is up. This time the interviewee is Francesco Decarolis from the Einaudi Centre for Economics and Finance and we spent some quality time talking about reputation and corruption in public procurement, including how a contracting authority nudged contractors to
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded the last episode of 2016 for the Public Procurement Podcast. This time the interview is with Suvi Taponen, Doctoral Researcher at Aalto University School of Business, who also works as a Procurement Consultant. She will defend her thesis entitled ‘Improving the efficiency of public service delivery
Public Procurement
The next instalment of the Public Procurement Podcast is up, this time a relaxed conversation with my good friend Baudouin Heuninckx, Chief Counsel of the Belgian Armed Forces Procurement Division and a part-time academic at the University of Nottingham and also the Belgian Royal Military Academy. He has just published
Public Procurement
There is a new episode of the Public Procurement Podcast up. This time the interview is S N Nyeck from Canterbury Christchurch University on public procurement governance in Africa. She is generally interested in the political economy of development and the role that public procurement plays in transforming institutions and
Public Procurement
Episode #25 of the Public Procurement Podcast is out. This time with Ana Cristina Calderon Ramirez from the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. We talked about Ana's research in the field of public procurement regulatory and monitoring entities in Latin America and the Caribbean with an emphasis on
Public Procurement
Prof. Sue Arrowsmith put out a whitepaper on the implications of Brexit for the UK's procurement rules. Albert has already provided a general comment on some important issues raised by the paper, such as the feasibility of a completely new procurement legal regime and what could be the
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded episode #24 of the Public Procurement Podcast. The interviewee this time is Warren Smith, Director of Warren Smith, Director, Digital Marketplace part of the Government Digital Service. We talked at length about the changes in digital procurement the UK Government is curently undertaking, some that already
Public Procurement
I uploaded episode #22 of the Public Procurement Podcast to its website yesterday. The interivewee is Willem Janssen, Lecturer and PhD Researcher at the Public Procurement Research Centre of Utrecht University and Twente University. His PhD researches the influence of EU public procurement law on the performance of services by
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded episode 21 of the Public Procurement Podcast, interviewing Petra Ferk (Graduate School of Government and European Studies) to the PPP website. We talked at length about electronic procurement in the EU, particularly the current legal framework introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU. This is the first
Public Procurement
Season 1 of the Public Procurement Podcast wrapped up earlier this month, so now is the time to reflect on the experience. In one year I since getting the go ahead, the website went up and so did 20 interesting interviews with (mostly) early career researchers in public procurement. Here