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The Commission published yesterday the 2018 Single Market Scoreboard. The overall results can be found here and the procurement section is here. As usual, the caveat on poor data from TED and the ‘qualitative policy judgment’ applies, but let’s see how things are in procurement: There is a lot
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Construction firms are apparently unhappy with the multitude of framework agreements proliferating in the country. In their view it adds costs to the contractors businesses and suggest a ‘clearing house’ to avoid ‘unfair and overlapping’ frameworks. It is interesting to consider the implications of this suggestion. It is true that
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This is the transcript of Johnson’s interview with Sky’s Sophie Ridge: SR: It was a very simple question. Are you prepared to see borrowing go up? BJ: If it's borrowing to finance great infrastructure projects and there is an opportunity to borrow at low rates and
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Like buses, we wait ages for new trade deals and then they all show up at once. Just a few days apart, the EU has concluded trade deals with Mercosur and Vietnam. The first was 20 years in the making and second probably some time less. As for what matters
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The Commission has opened a survey on the satisfaction of users with the ESPD. The findings are to be included as part of a report that will be submitted to the European Commission Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT) programme. The survey link is here and I wonder if the results
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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
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I found this paragraph on a recent decision by the CJEU (Case C-264/18): 24 According to the Court’s settled case-law, the purpose of coordinating, at European Union level, the procedures for the award of public contracts is to eliminate barriers to the freedom to provide services and goods
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking part on my second ever procurement unconference. For those not aware of how unconferences work, these are events where the agenda is not defined in advance but only on the day by the participants who pitch sessions they would like to chair and
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Nailing it in the head: Suppliers are getting worse information, it is hidden in too many places and competition is falling. /content/files/vbnszsydt8.pdf pic.twitter.com/u4qLZkS2PkJune 17, 2019 Vague descriptions = More complexity = less competition = worse outcomes. For those complexity paddlers who think their special interest can be
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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
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Long time readers of the blog know where I sit in the divide of more or less data being made available about procurement processes (more, of course). Having said that, I’m not impervious to the competition law arguments regarding the impact more data has on cartel formation/stability. But
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This past semester I have been teaching a module on blockchain and the law as part of our LLM in LegalTech. It is not directly about public procurement, but preparing classes forced me to organise my thoughts about the possible uses of blockchain overall. What I think about blockchain as