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Monthly Archives: August 2012

DoH appoints Recruitment and Employment Confederation to National Procurement Council

The NPC is the strategic procurement forum for the NHS and brings together senior figures from across the health service, industry and government to discuss purchasing, resourcing and supply issues. The Council meets quarterly and is chaired by the commercial director of the Department for Health (DH) and attended by the DH’s financial director and…

August 24, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Czech Republic – Public Procurement law widely circumvented

BIS the Czech counter-intelligence agency has gone public with sweeping allegations of corruption and graft in the Czech public sector, including claims that public procurement law is being widely flouted.

August 24, 2012 in Uncategorized.

EU Facts and Figures – did you know?

Some interesting Friday Facts and Figures from the “did you know?” page of the website of the Eu delegation to the USA? For instance, did you know that in 2011 EU-US trade was worth in excess of $600bn? http://tinyurl.com/7fct2av

August 24, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Global Procurement Boost – Russia Joins World Trade Organisation – 22 August 2012

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso welcomed the announcement, saying that Russia is the EU’s third largest trading partner and a very important market for EU exporters and investors. Russia’s WTO accession would bring a qualitative change to the current trade regime, Barroso said. http://tinyurl.com/9f5k7ju

August 23, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Olympic Legacy – £285k procurement of cycles for the Velodrome

Albeit on a relatively small way, here is one of the first green shoots… Lee Valley Regional Park Authority has a requirement for a variety of bicycles at the Lee Valley VeloPark. The Authority will own, fund and manage the VeloPark after the London 2012 Games and once legacy transformation works have been completed. The…

August 23, 2012 in Uncategorized.

ICC UK supports global ICC objection to EU third country access proposals

The ICC UK blog repeats wider ICC objections and attaches the letter written by ten ICC national chapters to the Commission in July. http://tinyurl.com/9zunlaq

August 22, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Fusion21 appoints Graham to single supplier bathrooms/CH Framework Agreement

The Plumber’s Merchant has been appointed to this UK wide framework in support of Fusion21’s planned maintenance obligations. http://tinyurl.com/cponhlf

August 22, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Biofuels procurement dogged by sustainability concerns

The long and rocky road to the effective establishment of a market for the procurement of biofuels has suffered another pothole in the form of German research which questions the veracity of Brussels’ claim that European biodiesel meets the relevant sustainability targets…. http://tinyurl.com/8lqnexd

August 22, 2012 in Uncategorized.

EU/Canada Trade Agreement – an alternative perspective: ATTAC-Quebec

Rabble.ca reports Claude Vaillancourt, president of ATTAC-Quebec as focusing in on the imbalance in the provincial and European Union member state offers when it comes to public services. “Canada and the provinces seem ready to guarantee European multinational firms very broad access to the Canadian market, On their end, the Europeans clearly remain more prudent”…

August 22, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Healthcare UK, hot on the heals of Global Healthcare Procurement Alliance…

The UK government’s plans to support the NHS in entering international private markets to subsidise its UK ‘free at the point of need’ provision has been (understandably) all over the news in the last 24 hours. What has received less coverage is NHS Commercial Solutions joining the Global Healthcare Procurement Alliance (see post on Monday).…

August 22, 2012 in Uncategorized.

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David Vayro


Partner leading the Built Environment Projects Team from the Manchester office of Primas Law covering Manchester, Cheshire and London, specialising in front end project work, all things procurement and in particular public procurement in the EU.

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