Public Procurement
1. UK ventilator manufacturers protected from injury claims 2. A look into emergency procurement and beyond 3. General Motor’s first ventilators are ready for delivery 4. Feds will pay GM USD489M to make 30,000 ventilators by August 5. Coronavirus: Three quarters of public favour working with EU to
Public Procurement
From an overall interesting article, but with these two procurement tidbits: Some transit experts speculate that what’s driving up the costs of building new elevators is that the MTA’s procurement process is largely uncompetitive. “They have really hyper-detailed specs for everything,” said Alon Levy, a transit writer and
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1. Plastic: Universities and Councils in Wales cut back on plastic cups and Wrap Cymru will put out single-use plastics procurement guidance. 2. Four rocket companies compete for US Air Force funding 3. European Commission issues guidance on the participation of third country bidders in the EU procurement market 4.
Public Procurement
Last week, Bloomberg ran an article claiming the USA and two other countries were blocking the UKs accession to the GPA agreement. Yesterday, it doubled down on the story stating New Zealand and Moldova as the two other members blocking the UK. and provided more information about why Moldova is
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1. Canada among 10 WTO members airing concerns about Trump 'Buy American' order 2. GSA's Blockchain Blockbuster 3. How good are the opportunities published on the Digital Marketplace? A great "hot or not" take on contract postings. 4. World Bank publishes framework for disclosure
Public Procurement
Stuff you cannot make up, by Gizmodo: “” By now my opinion about single source/direct award/request for quote(s) contracts should be well known to regular readers. This is yet another example of a decisions which may have been the correct one (or maybe not) but just by using
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For once, it is not me saying it but Dixon, Rimmer and Waschik in their "Evaluating the effects of local content measures in a CGE model: Eliminating the US Buy America(n) programs" paper: "Like many countries, the U.S. implements local content policies. Through these policies,
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1. Chicago wants to modernise procurement. 2. Vigo Council migrates to Linux. 3. Public procurement: making the world a better place - one order at a time. 4. Lessons learned from attempting to fix tech procurement. 5. Cladding for Grenfell Tower was the cheaper, more flammable option.
Public Procurement
'A lot' appears to be the answer: “ ” and more: “ ” Both quotes come from John Lehman, US secretary of the Navy under President Reagan. Note the push-back against cost-plus contracts and how they provide economic operators with the incentive to keep the costs ticking even if they are not
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1. Government of Western Australia shows Minimum Viable Product version of its new online procurement portal. Great to see a Government taking up on cheaper, more agile ways of developing services instead of building the whole widget without external feedback. Well done. 2. Is raising the micro-purchase threshold from $3,
Public Procurement
1. The total spend through Digital Marketplace has exceeded £1.5 billion. 2. Welsh Government pays out £1.2 million to settle procurement case. 3. Brazil prepares to get rid of open source software in Government (Portuguese only). 4. 18F is Hardly a Waste of Money. 5. Podcast on CETA&
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1. USA open sources most of the code base it uses in its projects. 2. 18F is under flak for costing money (as if turning a profit was a usual yardstick to measure public sector services). 3. Part 5 of the Digital Marketplace vision. 4. Every 1% saved from chaotic