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Meet the Buyer 2024 – Get live advice on how to win work on Scottish Frameworks

Scottish Government Procurement

The idea behind using frameworks to procure goods, services or works, is that it makes larger opportunities more accessible to smaller businesses, by breaking them down into segments. A lot is where a procurement process separates contracts into smaller categories, for instance geographical location or type of product.

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DoD is Making its List, and Checking it Twice: DoD Updates 1260H Chinese Military Companies List

Government Contracts Legal Forum

On January 31, 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) updated the 1260H List of entities identified as “Chinese military companies” operating in the United States, as it is required to do at least annually by Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021.

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The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Government Contracts Legal Forum

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 , signed into law on December 22, 2023, makes numerous changes to acquisition policy. The FY 2024 NDAA also includes the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, the American Security Drone Act, and the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2024.

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A focus on people: Delivering better public procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

But as we sift through the results of the 2024 election and its implications for our work, one thing is resoundingly clear: many Americans are struggling. Procurement shapes local economies Beyond service delivery, public procurement profoundly impacts local economies. trillion annually on goods, services, and labor.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

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. 2024 issue of Government Procurement. How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.”

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

Albert Sanchez-Graells , Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol Law School This blog post is based on the paper that was jointly awarded the Best Paper Prize Award 2024 by the Society of Legal Scholars.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

Introduction From up close, public procurement law can be seen as the set of mostly procedural rules controlling the way in which the public sector buys goods, services, and works from the market. Gatekeeping and Experimentation in Digital Public Governance (OUP 2024). Public Procurement I.