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The Pros and Cons of Lots & Lotting in Public Procurement
Nov 3, 2015
We have published a couple of articles recently covering some of the issues around “lots and lotting” and how they apply to public procurement.
Here, we looked at the confusion in the EU regulations over the approach to lotting and how far contracting authorities have to go in following that...
To Lot or Not To Lot – Confusion Over EU Procurement Rules
Oct 2, 2015
Running a workshop last week with around 30 public sector managers, we got into an interesting discussion about the EU procurement directives and the approach to “lots”. That was surprising perhaps, as few of the group were procurement experts, but the topic is having an impact on many managers...
Implementing E-Procurement – Kenya Runs Into Problems
Sep 25, 2015
It is not long ago that the introduction of e-procurement in Kenya was being hailed as a big success. Like many other countries in Africa and indeed other parts of the world, corruption has been a major problem in public procurement, and the introduction of e-procurement was seen as one way of...
Earn Learning Credits with Innovation Training Featuring Dan Ward!
Sep 21, 2015
What if I told you that in 2010, the Department of Defense built its fastest supercomputer for 1/10th the cost of comparable machines? And what if I told you the team responsible for building it didn’t have tons of time and resources, just a bunch of old PlayStation 3s?
Welcome to your new...
Milton Keynes Loses Challenge, Important Implications for Public Procurement Law in Europe
Aug 8, 2015
This is a legacy piece from our archives
A recent procurement challenge led to a subsequent fascinating legal case in the UK. The case looks set to go down as a landmark case in terms of public procurement regulations and case law. It is likely to be quoted many times in the future, we suspect, and...
What Contract Variation is Allowed Under EU Public Procurement Rules?
Jul 10, 2015
Understanding What the 2014 EU Procurement Directive Means for You
Part of the reason that procurement is such a complex field is that the rules and directives that control it are always evolving. To those of us in the public sector, and no doubt to those in the private sector as well, one of the...
U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) Faces $6 Billion in Maverick Acquisition Spending
May 15, 2015
Having done procurement benchmarking for over a decade, including public sector organizations, I don’t typically get surprised by seeing procurement under-performance. You’d be amazed at how bad some firms are—and I even know a few well-known retail brand names that don’t even really have...
Should the Government Care About the Profit Margin of a Supplier or Contractor?
May 12, 2015
Public organizations are under persistent pressure to analyze—and justify—how they spend their money with suppliers, a pressure that often gets passed down to contractors. Visibility and transparency into how the government spends money is vital to improving government acquisition, but that...
Australia Seeks to Use Procurement to Empower Aboriginal Australians
May 4, 2015
As a son of an Australian immigrant, one of my father’s most prized possessions—and yet one which my mom kept hidden in a guest room until the past few years as we have dealt with his Alzheimer’s—is a set of two lithograph prints my grandmother brought with them when she and my father...
2015 Challenges for Public Procurement – Austerity
Jan 25, 2015
We listed our six challenges for public procurement in 2015 at the beginning of the month. Here they are again.
Challenge no.1; Implementation of New Directives
Challenge no.2; Austerity continues
Challenge no.3; Social issues
Challenge no. 4; Value and Innovation
Challenge no.5; The Fight against...
New EU Directives on Abnormally Low Tenders – Implications for Procurement
Sep 22, 2014
EU Public Procurement Directives targeting low tenders are beginning to be implemented following their adoption in April of this year.
Three directives which would change the way public procurers treat abnormally low tenders (ALTs) must be implemented by member states before April 2016. However,...
New E-procurement System for Kenya to Stop Corruption
Apr 15, 2014
This is an article from our archives, originally published on August, 15, 2014.
Last week, Kenya officially launched their new national E-procurement system, with the President formally launching the initiative, a sign of how important this is perceived to be in the country. Kenya has had a...
