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Newswire Weekly – European Public Procurement Update
May 14, 2017
This is our weekly European public procurement news roundup. We will be bringing you recent public sector stories and information from around Europe’s news portals, reporting on how more than a trillion Euros of taxpayer money is being spent. This will become part of a future initiative to...
Lithuanian And Latvian Construction Firms In Illegal Agreement To Win Public Tenders
May 14, 2017
The Baltic Course reports that officers from the Klaipeda department of the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service raided a Lithuanian construction firm as part of an international pre-trial investigation into suspected public procurement fraud. It was investigating the case in collaboration with...
Are Suppliers Ripping Off the Tax Payer and Causing Government Projects to Fail?
May 14, 2017
We held recently one of our ‘infamous’ pub debates – a debate on a topical or burning issue, held in a pub, with two short sets of arguments ‘for’ or ‘against’ the motion being presented, lots of banter, heckling, food, drink, merriment – but all with a serious message and outcome!...
Newswire Weekly – European Public Procurement Update
May 14, 2017
This is our weekly European public procurement news roundup. We will be bringing you recent public sector stories and information from around Europe’s news portals, reporting on how more than a trillion Euros of taxpayer money is being spent. This will become part of a future initiative to...
Bulgarian Ex Foreign Minister Charged With Breach Of Public Procurement Rules
May 14, 2017
Bulgarian anti-corruption unit has charged former Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov with mismanagement that led to state losses of about 500 million levs (US$278 million) related to signing contracts in breach of public procurement rules. It is alledged he did not call a public procurement for air...
Market Engagement Best Practice Report from the SPP Regions
May 14, 2017
The Procurement Forum website is managed by the European Secretariat of ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability, as part of the Procurement of Innovation Platform project financed by the European Commission. It is a good way of finding out what is going on in the public “procurement of...
EU Catalogue – ICT Standards for Public Procurement
May 14, 2017
In the closing address at Procurement Week recently, Rodolphe Wouters of the European Commission summed up what we had heard during the day about the ‘IoT – Procuring a Connected Living’ — AI, connected cars, smart cities, blockchain, and so on. But what does it all really mean for European...
Acting CIO: Updating Legacy Systems About Better Data
May 11, 2017
Acting Federal Chief Information Officer Margie Graves said modernizing the government’s legacy systems will take a number of initiatives, including the Modernizing Government Technology Act, which seeks to help agencies spend savings on upgrades. Graves said the government will need to get a...
Negotiation in Public Sector Procurement — Why Does it Matter?
May 11, 2017
The perception from those who do not know the public sector well is that every aspect of procurement is process driven. Regulations in different countries are aimed at ensuring objectivity in the procurement process, and to protect against fraud. Because of this, negotiation is often not encouraged...
SBA Announced Competition to Provide Federal Procurement Training to Veteran-Owned Businesses
May 11, 2017
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced a competition to provide “Veteran Federal Procurement Entrepreneurship Training.” According to a press release, the competition “provides funding for U.S.-based organizations to expand existing federal procurement entrepreneurship training...
What Does a Tech Buying Team Need?
May 11, 2017
American City & County looks at the different challenges and skillsets that go into buying IT. The article features top public procurement and IT experts around the country discussing best practices, assembling teams and more. It also addresses a number of challenges faced by the public sector,...
Maryland Medical Marijuana Commission Under Scrutiny for Procurement Issues
May 11, 2017
The agency in charge of medical marijuana in Maryland is facing questions about its procurement procedures. Auditors from Maryland’s Office of Legislative Audits recently found the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission may have violated state procurement law by using a memorandum of understanding...
