Public Procurement
The innovation partnership is finally getting some use. The first tender (call?) was published only a couple of days ago on the Tenders Electronic Daily. The project is for a partnership looking to develop innovative means for overcoming elderly dehydration. The tender is being launched by the Market Development Fund
Public Procurement
I uploaded episode #22 of the Public Procurement Podcast to its website yesterday. The interivewee is Willem Janssen, Lecturer and PhD Researcher at the Public Procurement Research Centre of Utrecht University and Twente University. His PhD researches the influence of EU public procurement law on the performance of services by
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1. There is another podcast about procurement. Great first episode of the Public Spend Forum Podcast with Dave Zvenyach from 18F. 2. Welsh government moves to eradicate slavery from its supply chains. 3. GDS updates code of practice for government digital projects. 4. Opening up Sao Paulo’s health innovation
Public Procurement
Last month, Vote Leave came up with some "new research" on the terrible, terrible plight inflicted by EU procurement rules on UK contracting authorities (well, those of England, Wales and Northern Ireland I suppose). Colin Cram put out a very polite rebute in The Guardian earlier this week,
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded episode 21 of the Public Procurement Podcast, interviewing Petra Ferk (Graduate School of Government and European Studies) to the PPP website. We talked at length about electronic procurement in the EU, particularly the current legal framework introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU. This is the first
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1. There is a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) starting soon on PPPs [French only]. 2. Italian Army switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice and saves money. I regularly use LibreOffice 5 and the conversion between both office suites works quite well these days. 3. Open contracting at the UK
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1. European Commission publishes final version of its much awaited Notice on the notion of State aid as referred to in Article 107(1) TFEU. Albert's comments are here. 2. UK Government consults on changes to how councils publish procurement data. Consultation is available here. 3. Doubts over
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1. Public Procurement: Challenging traditional sourcing models. Free one day conference organised by the University of Sussex on June 1st. 2. GovLab is running a mooc on procurement and technology for people with actual projects to implement. Looks great if probably too US focused. 3. Court of Justice has an
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1. 18F is developing a a modern shared digital authentication platform. Good idea, but the pitfalls are on the execution and take up as we've seen with so many previous attempts. 18F is also sporting a gorgeous new look. 2. For start-ups, the path to public procurement contracts
Public Procurement
The British Government announced yesterday its plans to adopt a UK Open Government National Action Plan 2016-18 (NAP) which includes significant changes to procurement practice, aiming to make contracting "open by default." I am fully supportive of some of the ideas being pushed by the Government, namely the
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded to my SSRN repository a new paper which will be published later this year in the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL). The paper is focused on the relationship between the EU procurement thresholds and the GPA, arguing that the current threshold levels
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1. Ireland transposes Directive 2014/24/EU. According to my calculations we now have 9 out of 28 Member States which have transposed the Directive. Croatia may be the next one. 2. Austria is yet to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU. And so is Latvia. 3. A call for more