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Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. It has debarred more than 60 suppliers for violations, and reduced unresolved complaints and canceled tenders. Corruption in public procurement makes us poorer and takes our rights away.”
With today's announcement of his resignation on the back of a corruption probe, the time of Antonio Costa as Portuguese Prime-Minister reached its end. As for the 2017 transposition I do not have much to say, but I did say a lot about what was happening below-thresholds. But fashionably late it was nonetheless.
These and other constraints under the model law are commendable anti-corruption measures, but may make it more difficult to accommodate emerging “green procurement” approaches. The threshold challenge here is to ensure that there is sufficient information in the marketplace to make this kind of requirement workable.
With a mandate to prevent, investigate, and prosecute corruption, one of the Integrity Commission’s core functions is to oversee public procurement. There was huge enthusiasm in the room for developing a user-friendly tool to detect corruption in contracting.
The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. However, data from only 20% of all call for tenders as submitted by public buyers is available and searchable for analysis in one place [ie TED].
For example, when we take a whole year of contracts after a transparency reform taking place in May, our estimation may be biased if a procurement regulatory reform happened 5 months later, such as a new reporting threshold introduced. the same information is reported in very many different and changing formats).
This provision of the NDAA seems targeted at bridging the communication gap between the agencies by requiring that the parties to a proposed transaction over the HSR threshold provide a copy of their HSR filing directly to DoD.
The government opened a public tender process. Shortly after the public tender was opened, the Council of Ministers decided to invite PEL to start the process of carrying out the project (Award, para 202); the offer was rescinded less than a month later (Award, para 205). CFM was not able to contribute the 20% needed for the project.
The Court noted that the dispute following the Bojar Letter was not a continuation of a prior tender-related dispute commenced before the entry into force of the Treaty. Ratione Temporis The Czech Republic contended that the Tribunal lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate a dispute that had arisen before the BIT came into effect on 7 August 1991.
DJP, DJQ, and DJR, who were the respondents in the setting-aside application (the Respondents), tendered for one of the contracts. To be clear, the authors take no firm view on whether the arbitrators conduct in DJO reaches this threshold of severe conduct warranting the disclosure of his name.
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