Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

MARCH 4, 2015

Dear Friends and Colleagues, As I wrote in my blog of January 11, 2015 , I have decided to stop writing regular blog postings as part of scaling back my consulting and training work, and to give me more time to focus on other interests such as writing. All the best, Mike Mike Purdy's Public Contracting Blog © 2015 by Michael E.

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VWV

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We cover the latest and upcoming changes in legislation surrounding procurement and how to ensure you are ready for the changes Just under 3 years ago the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement was published. Review the Transforming Public Procurement - planning and preparation checklist.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 9, 2023

Public procurement accounts for around 13-20% of global GDP , so it has the potential to be an important tool for governments to promote gender equality. Women-led businesses are currently underrepresented in public procurement awards. It can also have benefits for governments.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. Further, the Cabinet Office and National Audit Office also reported that this spend increased to 27% in 2014/2015, surpassing the government target of 25%.

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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A long road to implementation The journey to the Acts implementation started over 5 years ago with the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement in December 2020. The Procurement Bill was introduced in the House of Lords in May 2022, receiving Royal Assent on 26 October 2023.

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This policy note provides changes to financial thresholds to the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 and the Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On 13 November 2023, the UK Government published guidance setting out its ambitions for innovation procurement under the new Procurement Act 2023 (not yet in force, of which you can read a summary here). This further expands on the ambitions underpinning the Transforming Public Procurement project that started after Brexit.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In public procurement, this has given rise to a global movement promoting procurement data transparency, a.k.a. Many governments have committed to making public procurement data more transparent and open for public scrutiny. open contracting. But what do these commitments look like in reality?

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

As we celebrate, we find ourselves at the crossroads of progress and potential, confronting the myths holding women back from participating in public procurement and attaining certain heights in leadership. Happy International Women’s Day! According to the World Bank, women-owned SMEs contribute 20% to the global GDP.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Bogota, Colombia, 4 October 2023 — Colombia’s public procurement market is around $150 billion annually, making it a unique opportunity to boost business growth, especially for small companies. CREDERE operates directly with open data on public contracting to unlock new opportunities for small companies in public procurement.

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European Law: Public Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Call for Papers: Workshop on Comparative Constitutional Amendment Boston College, 15 May 2015. Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2015. Call for Submissions: Trade, Law & Development – Special Issue on Government Procurement Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2015.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

Public sector agencies need to be able to access the cloud, and they do so through public procurement processes. Procurement’s role in supporting modern, digital services for governments is the subject of a report from the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Open Contracting Partnership (OCP).

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this post as part of our series exploring the impact of AI on public procurement , we’ll outline our approach and lessons learned. But the EU’s procurement notices use the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV), not these product groups, so we had to match the product groups to CPV codes (see our spreadsheet ).

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Contract termination in public procurement under the Procurement Act 2023directs to the lawful termination of a contract between acontracting authorityand a supplier, providing compliance withpublic contracts regulations.

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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector. 12 goals of value for money and public benefit and s.13

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. It’s not an easy task,” says Moreno. The higher a procedure’s score, the more rules have potentially been broken.

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VWV

MAY 23, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) receiving Royal Assent in October of last year was the first step in the long-awaited implementation of the public procurement reforms. The Cabinet Office has now confirmed the 'go-live' date of 28 October 2024.

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VWV

MAY 23, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) receiving Royal Assent in October of last year was the first step in the long-awaited implementation of the public procurement reforms. The Cabinet Office has now confirmed the 'go-live' date of 28 October 2024.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

Utilise PCR 2015 to the fullest degree by testing new ‘Innovation Partnerships’ A significant piece of legislation came within PCR 2015 , giving the legal framework for design contests to be held between companies and the public sector for research and development purposes.

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VWV

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Transitional provisions With this delay, any procurements of new contracts, including frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems (DPS), that begin before February 24, 2025, will continue to be governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. For DPS, there is a long stop date of 24 February 2029.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

Most procurement Legal and Regulatory Frameworks require it to be an ad-hoc body with at least three members knowledgeable in Procurement, with technical expertise in the specific item being procured and a representative of the user entity. Other organizations, such as the Millennium Challenge Corporation (see MCC PPG P1.A.2.70,

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University of Bristol

JULY 15, 2018

The research underpinning this blog post was published as A K Gideon & A Sanchez-Graells, ‘When are Universities Bound by EU Public Procurement Rules as Buyers and Providers?

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Enhancing the transparency of government in general and of public procurement processes in particular has been increasingly on the agenda of governments, civil societies and businesses as evidenced by initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership which has seen 70 OGP members making 189 open contracting commitments by March 2019 [1].

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VWV

MAY 23, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) receiving Royal Assent in October of last year was the first step in the long-awaited implementation of the public procurement reforms. The Cabinet Office has now confirmed the 'go-live' date of 28 October 2024.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the relatively recent developments in the post-Brexit review of UK public procurement law is the February 2021 proposal for the replacement of the current rules on the commissioning of healthcare services for the purposes of the English NHS (for background, you can watch here ), with a new provider selection regime (‘the proposal’).

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

Critical and urgent procurements, together with other procurements which may not have started as urgent, have become priorities, due to the volume of additional work created by the pandemic. This is likely to be harder for non-NHS contracting authorities to demonstrate unless the nature of the contract is for public health.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 2, 2024

Also, (ii) Worley allegedly violated the Ecuadorian law by misrepresenting its intention to comply with the 30% subcontracting limit mandated by Article 87 of the Public Procurement Law and subsequently breached this limit. In possible exchange, Worley may have awarded Shaw a US$ 1.2 million contract.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I was invited to provide an entry on ‘public procurement’ for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law co-edited by Andrea Biondi and Oana Stefan. things going on in procurement. Public Procurement I. Below is my draft entry with perhaps an eclectic choice of content.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of public procurement. It should be said though that centre right government which preceded him did not do so before the general election of October 2015, barely six months before the end of the transposition deadline.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The majority was of the view that following the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015, there are stricter standards for impartiality and independence under Section 12(5) read with the Seventh Schedule of the Act (incorporating the Red List in the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration2014 ).

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Public Procurement Intl

APRIL 6, 2025

policymakers hoped to include public procurement as part of a broader effort to open world markets so as to reduce the risks of war. State Department, in Article 8 would have included public procurement in a broader framework of free trade. procurement), U.S. Taking this approach, in Section 2.1

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