Public Procurement
The European Commission has just published earlier today a lengthy guidance document on procurement of innovation. It is welcome since procurement of innovation is the kind of approach (policy? idea?) that is useful mostly for the top 1% of procurers and even then, just some of the time. As such,
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1. UK East Coast rail franchise expected to be scrapped 'in days'. For the third time in 10 years one should add... 2. Carillion used its suppliers to "prop up falling business model". 120 payment days are not really new or unexpected in the field of
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1. Microsoft deal helps NHS ramp up cyber security- oh, the irony. 2. Cabinet Office updates its tech spend controls processes 3. When to challenge public contract awards - lessons learned from the UK passport saga - easy, when you have reasonable grounds for it. 4. Did Your Company Make
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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: “ ”
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Can't really say I am surprised by De La Rue's decision, but the motives are a joy to read: "We've done our homework, we've taken legal advice, we've looked at, frankly, the likelihood of overturning the decision and the
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I remember - naively - thinking competition law made no sense conceptually. Surely, the idea of having a market and economic operators inside it was to enable competition for the best to win. So, why do we need competition law and by extension, public procurement rules? The CEO of Liberty
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Building upon two week's ago decision to award the first post-Brexit UK passports to an Franco-Dutch (Dutch-French?) company, it seems De La Rue is initiating proceedings to get the award decision reviewed. This is yet another timely reminder EU law is still applicable in the UK since the
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Thanks to Joelle Grogan who is running the excellent TrickyLaw series for covering public procurement and allowing me to take part! Why can't the @ukhomeoffice choose to make the #British #bluepassport in #Britain? What's the #EU got to do with it? We asked excellent #publicprocurement expert
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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.
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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,
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Thought provoking piece on The Guardian from an Oxfam manager about social audits as means to drive change in supply chains: "The ethical audit industry is estimated to be worth $80 million dollars a year. The World Bank recently calculated that parallel, or duplicate, audits in the Vietnamese garment
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1. The fiscal costs of PPPs are higher than anticipated. Told you so... 2. Aragon Regional Government trials blockchain in public procurement (Spanish only). A small step for man... Sweden gets it feet wet with the land registry as well. 3. UK Government spending more with AWS. Unsurprising, expect to