Public Procurement
The Portuguese Government has just published a first public draft of the Revised Public Contracts Code (PCC) which aims to transpose Directives 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU. The draft is available here (Portuguese only) and a public consultation open until September 23rd. The PCC revision
Public Procurement
1. Albert comments on the recent European Court of Auditors Special Report on procurement. Report itself is here. 2. Procurement corruption, Argentina style. 3. Bad procurement, custom software edition. 4. A friendly reminder that (some) contracting authorities in the UK are expected to publish their contract information on Contracts Finder.
Public Procurement
Although procurement rules are usually conceived to pursue increased competition via transparency and say non-discrimination, those which benefit from the increased access to procurement contracts coming from the private sector are not really keen in more competition that what is strictly necessary. Particularly, they do not like competition coming xfrom
Public Procurement
1. Mexico City starts publishing live public procurement open data (Spanish only). 2. GDS is looking for help to design "digital first" public contracts that are easy and simple to use. I am fully supportive of initiatives like this. 3. On the same vein, is now easier to
Public Procurement
As hinted a few times before, Albert and I have been busy setting up a joint Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Commentary over the last six months of so. As a recap, we concluded our "procurement tennis" match in the Summer 2015 and a few months later we got
Public Procurement
1. There's an "official" English translation of the Danish public procurement law. This reminds me of a project idea I had a couple of months ago of translating into English a number of very different public procurement laws. Thanks Carina for the heads up. 2. Court
Public Procurement
“ ” — https://promarket.org/antitrust-answer-rising-wealth-inequality/ Interesting discussion about the effects (or not) of competition law enforcement and inequality and how procurement in the US may function as redistribution mechanism. The problem with Crane's argument I suspect is that larger companies generate more profit but can pay a lower effective
Public Procurement
1. Company Owned by Former Kotayk Governor Wins 34 Million AMD in "Non-Bid" State Contracts. Oh the joys of lack of transparency and competition. 2. Agency connected to Conservative Party donor receives £3.9m Treasury contracts. 3. Public Procurement Trade-Offs Should Be Acknowledged and Addressed, Not Ignored. Agreed
Public Procurement
Bulgaria has apparently passed a law recently demanding all software purchased in the future by the country to be open source. This raises a couple of procurement related questions which are worth covering here. Art 58 of the E-Government Act states that: “ ” (Translation via Google Translate) It appears this law
Public Procurement
1. GC opens dangerous door to post-challenge / after-the-fact 'rationalisation' of public procurement evaluations (T-349/13) 2. Police searches a number of different local authorities in Spain due to corruption allegations (Spanish only). 3. Bulgaria passes law requiring open source software. Hmmm....or equivalent? Apparently what the law sets
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1. 18F wants to move past building digital services for agencies 2. Clause for celebration: government acts on contract transparency 3. Open Contracting Data Standard API specification (GitHub) 4. Global Standards, Local Data: OCDS in Vietnam 5. Who has won the contract? - Identifying the bidders of public procurement processe.
Public Procurement
Prof. Chris Yukins from George Washington University Law School has launched a new blog dedicated to international public procurement. Chris is a great writer and in my view his emphasis on international procurement is great. We need more people engaging with the public and writing with different points of view