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
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1. An overview of Internet-of-Things (IOT) procurement for public services 2. Commission issues Regulation on e-Forms for public procurement 3. Shadow of corruption lingers over road construction in Latvia 4. Ranking Tech Brands in European Public Procurement New book published - Cost and EU Public Procurement Law: life-cycle costing for
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The Government has just published an extensive No-Deal Readiness report that happens to mention public procurement in two instances: Procurement: Leaving the EU presents an opportunity to design a radically new regulatory framework for public procurement which better meets UK needs, drives improved commercial outcomes, delivers greater simplification and flexibility,
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Clifford Chance has commented on the Prime Minister’s promise to change public procurement rules in the UK in favour of national businesses once the country is outside the EU in a fairly detailed piece by Andrew Dean. The article correctly explores the various alternatives for the UK going forward,
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Sam Bowman and Stian Westlake have just published a pamphlet about what the right should be doing in terms of economic thinking. I have not read it fully, but spent some quality time with the procurement section, which focus on procurement of innovation. Bowman and Westlake do not seem overly
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1. Spanish public procurement oversight body still without means to do its work [Spanish] 2. Trade facts the UK Government has to face 3. Bid rigging conspiracy in railroad electrification works: a very Spanish ‘sainete’ 4. Government urged to ‘buy British’ steel by producers Turkish bidder for British Steel was
Public Procurement
In a great example of using available contract data and building upon other researchers’ work, Silvia Fierascu looked at the risk of state capture in public procurement over 10 years for all the 28 EU Member States: Explore state capture country profiles. The analyses looked at over 2 mil. public
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1. Plastic: Universities and Councils in Wales cut back on plastic cups and Wrap Cymru will put out single-use plastics procurement guidance. 2. Four rocket companies compete for US Air Force funding 3. European Commission issues guidance on the participation of third country bidders in the EU procurement market 4.
Public Procurement
The UK Central Government has just published the Procurement Policy Note 04/19 on supplier's approach to payment in the procurement of major contracts. Effectively from September onwards, in procurement processes tendered by Central Government, all tenderers for large contracts subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and
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The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday to Parliament that the Government will be awarding to Capita the Defence Fire and Rescue contract, putting end to a protracted process which involved a challenge by Serco, one of the other bidders. This is going to be a £525 million,
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Boris Johnson is once again talking about procurement: “ ” The obvious figure Johnson is missing here is that 97% or so of procurement is spent with British companies, so the upside of the measure is pretty much non-existent. However, any move to tilt the playing field in favour of British companies
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Warren Smith, Global Digital Marketplace Programme Director replied to my tweet this morning about the Commission’s Single Market Scorecard: Analysis of the @gov_procurement Digital Outcomes and Specialists (#DOS) framework @GOVUKdigimkt usage up to yesterday, regarding points [1] and [8] only pic.twitter.com/U4c7TVv8CdJuly 5, 2019 For the