On October 26, 2023, the Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) received Royal Assent. The UK government has hailed it as “one of the largest shake ups to procurement rules in this country’s history.” Indeed, once in force (expected to be in October 2024, with a six-month notice period),...
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Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act: An Act to Ensure a Barrier-free Canada aims to benefit all Canadians, especially those with disabilities, by helping to create a barrier-free Canada.
The Government’s policy objectives for the reforms were: “to speed up and simplify public procurement processes to place value for money at their heart to create greater opportunities for small businesses and social enterprises to innovate public service delivery” (House of Lords Library Bri...
The Scottish procurement regime is also derived from the EU procurement directives, and is principally based on them (with some Scottish domestic legislation supplementing the directives-based framework). The Act itself does not represent the whole body of domestic procurement law that will apply once...
The board had previously told Minister for Skills Chris Steel it could not confirm if the contracts represented value for money as it had not overseen the procurement process. “The Board will be working closely with the ACT Government to reset the Governance Frame...
B. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING AND PROCUREMENT On July 21, a consulting firm agreed to pay approximately $377 million to resolve allegations that from 2011 to 2021 it violated the FCA by improperly billing unrelated or disproportionate costs to its government contracts. In particular, the government allege...
As the book’s provocative title suggests, Professor Davis has a mixed assessment of the current legal framework on the regulation of transnational corruption (a framework dominated by rules set by the OECD countries, especially the United States), recognizing the progress that has been made in ...
Discusses the implications of the aim of the government of Great Britain to transform public services to meet the needs of customers and deliver better services on procurement professionals. Expansion of the use of the Internet; Use of the successful initi...
businesses’ access to the global government procurement market. Some of the respondents expressed concerns specific to those U.S. businesses who maintain a global supply chain and/or those that participate both in the commercial marketplace and the Federal marketplace. According to these respondents...