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The power of procurement data: How one villager unveiled a corruption scandal

Open Contracting Partnership

By Torplus Yomnak, Co-Founder of HAND Social Enterprise and the Director of the Knowledge Hub for Regional Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Collaboration (KRAC) In May 2021, amid the pandemic lockdowns, a villager in Thailand took a stroll on the outskirts of their town, making an unexpected discovery that would stir the local community.

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Countdown to RIDW2024: Acceleration of Construction Projects

Kluwer Arbitration

Probuild [2021] VSC 849. Probuild [2021] VSC 849. Constructive acceleration, widely recognised in the United States, is intended to denote “deemed” as opposed to “instructed” acceleration. Notwithstanding some recent suggestions otherwise in response to unfolding case law, 1) A recent example popularly used for illustration is V601 v.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

I will not focus on the detail of procurement rules, which is better left to in-depth analysis (eg Arrowsmith [2014] and [2018] , Steinicke and Vesterdorf [2018] , or Caranta and Sanchez-Graells [2021] ). Commentary on Directive 2014/24/EU (Edward Elgar 2021).

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

To address those issues, the European Commission was planning to ‘ Elaborate a data initiative for public procurement data covering both the EU dimension (EU datasets, such as TED) and the national ones ’ by the end of 2020, which would be ‘ complemented by a procurement data governance framework ’ by mid 2021.

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What is the FAR: Your Guide to the Federal Acquisition Regulation

Select GCR

For instance, FAR includes a provision at 52.203-2, Certificate of Independent Price Determination, which ensures independent bids and prevents collusive pricing in government contracting. For instance, in 2021, the FAR was updated to include rules on building accessibility into products and services procured by the government.

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