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IRSPP 10/NIGP Workshop in Charlotte, North Carolina

Public Procurement Intl

On August 22, 2024, Chris Yukins and Tom Daley (DLA Piper) presented to the International Research Study of Public Procurement (IRSPP) group’s tenth workshop , in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of the NIGP (Institute for Government Procurement) annual conference.

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Slide deck for last week's workshop on sustainability and public procurement

Telles.eu

As promised, you can find the (edited) slide deck for my workshop on sustainability in public procurement here. The essential of my view is that a broad stroke transition to mandatory sustainable procurement objectives is misguided and probably in breach of the principle of proportionality as well.

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6th Economics of Public Procurement Workshop

Utrecht University

The workshop provides an annual forum to discuss recent advances in the economic analysis of public procurement and to bring together economists active in the field.

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Upcoming workshop on sustainable procurement this Thursday

Telles.eu

This coming Thursday I will be doing a workshop at the Lisbon Environmental Law cluster from the University of Lisbon. Without wanting to spoil too much in advance the gist of my talk will be a critique of the current prevailing view that we are moving public procurement from having rules on how we buy to what/why we buy instead.

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Building public procurement integrity in Jamaica

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

Public procurement is one of the key ways of corruptly channelling money out of the state, not least because it is one of the few areas of public spending in which there is significant discretion. That means that, in a well-functioning state, there will be many bodies with an interest in controlling and overseeing procurement.

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Single Procurement Document: Buyer awareness sessions

Scottish Government Procurement

Earlier in 2023 we hosted a series of workshops for all public sector buyers on the Single Procurement Document (SPD) module within Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). Following the huge uptake in interest, we have decided to host another series of these workshops over coming months.

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Single Procurement Document: Buyer awareness sessions

Scottish Government Procurement

Earlier in 2023 we hosted a series of workshops for all public sector buyers on the Single Procurement Document (SPD) module within Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). Following the huge uptake in interest, we have decided to host another series of these workshops over coming months.

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