Public Procurement
CityMapper which ran a on-demand bus service in London for a while had this to say about public procurement: "It’s hard for the public sector to buy good software Government entities need to utilise complex and bureaucratic procurement systems. These are won by companies with project managers and
Public Procurement
Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has told the Liaison Committee of the House of Commons the following: “We in government have started to look at lessons in terms of how we go about contracting with companies, [and consider] whether we want to revisit the question of seeking best value for
Public Procurement
The UK Government has just published a technical note detailing its approach in phase 2 to a number of different areas, including ongoing public procurement procedures. The Government disputes the EU's assumption that Union law should be applicable to ongoing procedures and states instead that "in practical
Public Procurement
The Commission has just published today a Draft Withdrawal Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community. The Draft Withdrawal Agreement sets out the arrangements for the UK's withdrawal from the Union
Public Procurement
Ian Makgill from SpendNetwork and OpenOpps ran a twitter thread a few days ago based on a presentation he did on procurement data analysis. Thread / I recently gave a presentation with @CivTechForum highlighting some of the key issues in public procurement. I thought I'd run through some of
Public Procurement
1. A Clear Understanding of Outcome-Based Contracts? 2. Inquiry launched into East Coast rail franchise collapse. 3. The rise and fall of 18F. 4. Madrid city council is not a fan of transparency in public procurement (Spanish only). 5. Obscure deals and dead-ends: the dark side of Hungarian public procurement.
Public Procurement
The ERA - Academy of European Law yearly procurement conference is scheduled this year for the 22nd and 23rd of March in Trier with the following topics: * Update on latest developments in EU policy * Recent jurisprudence at EU and national level * Public procurement and EU external trade relations * Procurement, competition
Public Procurement
The Sorbonne Business School and and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rome Tor Vergata have announce the 4th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Public Procurement to be held on October 25th and 26th in Paris. The call for papers is now out. The topics are: 1. Life cycle costing
Public Procurement
This happened last week but completely forgot to mention it here. My most recent paper about the use of direct awards (negotiated procedure without notice) in Portugal is out in the newest number of the e-Publica journal. Here's the abstract: The Portuguese Revised Public Contracts Code misses an
Public Procurement
So it seems, although the full description is "Senior Policy Adviser - Brexit - International Agreements." Although I have the feeling this is one of those positions where you will either end up having a ton of interesting work or none at all depending on how the Brexit
Public Procurement
Albert and I have just published a new paper on the impact of Brexit in the regulation of public procurement in the UK. The paper is called 'Examining Brexit Through the GPA’s Lens: What Next for UK Public Procurement Reform?' (2017) 47(1) Public Contract Law Journal
Public Procurement
Yesterday's budget announcement included a nice £20 million pot for GovTech projects: “” What can the Government do with this? If I were Innovate UK I would be setting up an incubator/accelerator programme for startups to develop solutions based on the new innovation partnership procedure so that both