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UK Central Buying Organisation Looking for Providers To Build New Digital Service
Jun 21, 2018
UK’s Crown Commercial Service is looking for a team to build a digital service for public sector users to find and transact with apprenticeship training providers. They will also integrate with a dynamic purchasing system as part of the CCS Supplier Registration Service. A new Apprenticeship...
Inappropriate Allocations of Public Money in Spain’s Infrastructure Projects
Jun 21, 2018
A report “Approximation to the geography of wasteful spending in Spain: assessment of the last two decades,” is a joint project of the universities of Barcelona, Girona, Valencia, Cantabria, Tenerife, Seville, Málaga, Alicante and Madrid’s Complutense University. It finds that Spain been...
Helsinki Opens Biggest Ever Airport Tender
Jun 21, 2018
As part of a €1bn ($1.16bn) development programme at Helsinki Airport, Finnish airport operator Finavia has opened a tender process for 13 retail and food & beverage concessions at Finland’s largest international airport. This is the biggest-ever for Helsinki Airport for the commercial spaces...
Freedom of Information Requests Should Be Extended to Major Public Projects
Jun 21, 2018
A Scottish Member of Parliament has said that firms building major public infrastructure projects should be covered by freedom of information laws. He believes citizens should have more access to understanding how Scotland’s £11 billion of tax payer money on public procurement of services is...
New Alliance Model for Highways England
Jun 21, 2018
Earlier this year Highways England announced the development of a new procurement model to deliver Smart Motorways, ‘drawing on an incentive-driven commercial model & maturing towards an integrated operating model’. It is now planning to adopt a full 10-year alliance model for its smart...
Objections to EU Public Sector Market Amendment on Third-Country Bidders
Jun 21, 2018
Three European federations, EIC (European International Contractors), FIEC (the European Construction Industry Federation) and EuDA (the European Dredging Association) have called upon Members of the International Trade (INTA) Committee of the European Parliament to reject proposed amendments to EU...
Agile at DOD: Going Beyond Sticky Notes and Standing Meetings
Jun 19, 2018
“In DOD now, everybody says they’re doing agile. But when they say they are doing agile, they mean you stand instead of sitting down at meetings, and that you use sticky notes to track tasks. If you do those things, you’re an agile god. They are still doing lengthy requirements development,...
Should I Take a Job in Public Procurement? CEO for CCS Interviews This Week
Jun 19, 2018
This week sees the final interviews and selection for the Chief Executive role at Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the UK central government collaborative buying operation.
We suspect the candidates will include some – maybe even all – who are primarily private sector in terms of their...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Jun 15, 2018
Technology Modernization Board announces $45 million awards to three agencies for IT modernization efforts, DHS awards $1 billion contract as part of CDM program, and the military drone market is expected to be worth over $13 billion by 2024. This is Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for June...
July 2018 Marks Beginning of Enforced EU Public Procurement Directive
Jun 14, 2018
Lexology has run an article in the run up to the July 2018 deadline when the Federal Procurement Act 2018 will enter into force finally replacing the Federal Procurement Act 2006. It’s now more than two years since the transposition and more than one year after publication of the first...
Dubai’s Dafza New Platform for B2B Commerce
Jun 14, 2018
A proposal has been accepted for Dubai Airport Freezone Authority to form a joint team from free zones to work with government entities in an integrated and interactive way on B2B commerce. The platform, Dubai Blink, uses artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and virtual business licenses...
New Tech Index Highlights Strengths of UK Clusters in Joint Innovation
Jun 14, 2018
A new Tech Innovation Index launched by Data City shows the most active innovation communities in the UK by categories. “It goes beyond standard pre-determined geographies, enabling it to reveal previously unseen vital business and academic links across cities and county boundaries, and...
