It’s all change in public procurement. The wide range reforms proposed by the European Commission, expected to result in a new directive by 2014, make fundamental changes to the way in which public purchasers will go about their daily lives. (more…)
Following Francis Maude’s statement to public sector buyers on a ‘presumption against competitive dialogue’, you could be forgiven for being a little confused.
Competitive dialogue has always been an exception route, to be used only where the open and restricted procedures cannot generate the required outcome or where the authority does not know the detail of what it wants to buy (and how) in advance. Nothing new in the most recent statement, then? (more…)
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