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Have Your Say About the 2014 Public Procurement Directives
Apr 11, 2019
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the Council of European Municipalities are conducting a consultation on the 2014 Directives on Public Procurement. The Directives introduced a number of changes in the European legal framework for public procurement. They introduced new...
Open Market Consultation in Archiving and Digital Preservation Services Open
Apr 11, 2019
Four large research organisations from Switzerland, Germany and Spain (CERN, DESY, EMBL-EBI and PIC) are inviting interested suppliers to participate in the open market consultation in preparation of their upcoming pre-commercial procurement ARCHIVER. The procurement aims to introduce radical...
Better Access to French Public Procurement Law
Apr 11, 2019
April 1st, 2019 marked the day when the first French public procurement code entered into force. The Code aims at gathering the rules governing the award, performance and termination of public procurement agreements − mainly public procurement contracts and concession agreements. The Code...
Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Applications in Government
Apr 8, 2019
Government contractors have a new means to provide their services
The way forward for most occupations and services is through increased automation and digitization. Jobs are increasingly relying on computers and other digital technology to increase productivity and decrease costs. This is seen...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Apr 5, 2019
GSA’s IT Schedule 70 opens SINs for Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services, FBI delays $5B Justice IT services recompete, and GSA’s innovation investment arm plans to award a single-vendor BPA for agile development services. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for April...
EAFIP Open for New Applications for PCP and PPI Assistance
Apr 4, 2019
The European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) initiative, which supports public procurers across Europe in developing and implementing innovation procurement, is open to receive applications from public procurers of all EU Member States to support the implementation of Pre-Commercial...
All Three Modules of the EAFIP Available Now
Apr 4, 2019
The European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) toolkit is available online and is designed to help public procurers in preparing their innovation procurement. It provides support to policy makers in designing PCP and PPI strategies, and to procurers and their legal departments in...
Circular Cities – Innovating To Tackle Plastic Waste
Apr 4, 2019
Registration for the ‘Circular Cities – Innovating to tackle plastic waste’ event at Scotland House (Brussels) on 16 May is now open. The conference is during #EUGreenWeek. Join others from EU institutions, cities, industry, civil society, academia and H2020 stakeholders for a one-day...
Public Sector Outsourcing To Commercial Companies – We Need More Training
Apr 4, 2019
Following the UK Government’s published guide, the Outsourcing Playbook, party-independent think tank, Reform, says expertise in procurement should be improved with more training for those tasked with doing deals often involving very large amounts of taxpayers’ money – rather than banning the...
Crossrail – PAC Demands Accountability for Failures
Apr 4, 2019
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is demanding the government explain who is responsible for ‘failures’ on the delayed and over-budget UK Crossrail project. A report by auditor KPMG in January revealed the project has gone nearly £3 billion over budget and is costing £30 million...
Procurement Fraud – A Public Menace
Apr 4, 2019
According to new research from SAS, procurement fraud is widespread in the UK and the country lags behind many countries in its detection capabilities, being far more reliant on ineffective manual detection techniques than other nations. “A quarter of businesses (24 per cent) have been victims...
Buying as One: Category Management Lessons from the United Kingdom
Apr 2, 2019
This IBM report is good reference material for category management best practice for government.
Category Management was adopted as a purchasing strategy in the 1980s by the private sector, particularly retail and manufacturing. Essentially it was putting similar types of spend into...
