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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Both the European Union ( Directive 2014/24/EU , Art. One solution would be to bring Article 10 into line with Article 43 of EU Directive 2014/24/EU , to ensure that eco-labels: (a) concern only “criteria which are linked to the subject-matter of the contract and are appropriate to define characteristics.

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Did you know many Procurement Team in govt use MEAT as part of evaluation?

Tendersinfo

This criterion of selecting the tender was announced by European Parliament in January 2014. Evaluation of tender is divided into two parts first being the technical Evaluation that involves the assessment of the tender bin its technical merit. Tender Evaluation is done as an aggregate of both aspects.

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New Paper Refutes Arguments Against Implementation of Whistleblower Awards in the U.K.

Whistleblower Network News

In the paper, “Revisiting The Arguments Against Whistleblower Award Laws: It’s Time for a Change,” Kohn goes through seven of the main arguments laid out in a 2014 report by the Bank of England which recommended that the U.K. Whistleblower advocates have long pointed out the whistleblowers in the U.K. are flocking to U.S.

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Manatee County Sheriff’s Office transforms performance management to improve service

American City & Country

Understanding the nature of today’s job market and the importance of effectively recruiting and retaining its employees, the HR department at Manatee County Sheriff’s Office took important steps to transform the way it evaluates employees’ and managers’ performance. An audit helped the team realize the gaps it could not fill.

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Whistleblower Receives Over $4 Million in Medical Record Fraud Settlement

Whistleblower Network News

The government alleges the Grand intentionally made false claims for rehabilitation therapy for residents at 12 establishments that Strauss Ventures owned and maintained between January 1, 2014, and September 30, 2019.

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How South Korea enables its green transition through green public procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Purchasing of these products has increased dramatically over the years, from less than 1% of goods purchased in 2010 to more than 16% in 2014. Since 2014, the proportion has remained stable, as the latest KIP analysis shows. KIP’s analysis revealed low use of procurement methods that apply life-cycle cost evaluations.

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Excitement growing over GSA’s COMET II program

Federal News Network

COMET replaced the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations (CAMEO) procurement that GSA awarded in 2014 to a host of large and small businesses with a total ceiling of $400 million. COMET was so successful that GSA on-ramped several new small businesses after the initial awardees grew too big.

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