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Almost half of new business wins are in the Cloud

Couldn’t help but notice this statistic pumped by TerminalFour, having just won a CMS (Content Management Services) framework agreement with G-Cloud. http://tinyurl.com/ccqqnwq

November 26, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Norway elects to implement EU Defence Directive – OF Europe but not IN Europe?

As any fule know Norway is not an EU Member State. It does, however, recognise the crucial importance of is relationship with the EU in the interconnected areas of trade and defence, as this article in IHS Janes points out. So much so that Oslo has announced that it is going to voluntarily implement the…

November 23, 2012 in Uncategorized.

SCAPE: CBI procurement criticism should be directed at obsession with small Frameworks

Scape has hit back at the CBI survey results which point towards the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of UK public procurement. The true culprit, in Scape’s view, is public sector obsession with framework agreements to avoid having to go through to OJEU process every time works goods and services are procured. This, as Scape point out…

November 23, 2012 in Uncategorized.

UK 4G sell off suggests Nigeria’s NCC may have undersold its own 4G to Smile

This article on AllAfrica is holding up the UK 4G Auction as a benchmark to question the value for money (and even legality!) of the Nigerian Communications Commission’s sale of a paired frequency spectrum to Smile. http://tinyurl.com/buddqu2

November 23, 2012 in Uncategorized.

EC adds to Greece’s Woes – public procurement infringement proceedings in ECJ

As if Greece did not have enough to worry about? The European Commission has twisted the knife and has decided to refer The Greeks to the Court of Justice for failing to ensure full compliance with EU rules on public procurement as regards the purchase of an information system for the Social Security Foundation (IKA).…

November 22, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Police and Crime Commissioners will eventually take over Police ICT Company

As ICT Procurement reports, Damian Green ha expressed the hope that eventually PCCs will take over and run the new Police ICT Company trailed by Theresa May. http://tinyurl.com/boxru6r

November 22, 2012 in Uncategorized.

NI: Procurement Board to ensure 10 day payment to contractors

Sammy Wilson has restated his commitment that the Procurement Board will do everything it can to support the construction sector in Northern Ireland. One key objective is to ensure that contractors are paid itching 10 days. http://tinyurl.com/ch5ntdq

November 21, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Aokang Shoes, Case C-247/10 P – ECJ rejects anti-dumping “shoe levy”

The ECJ has opened up EU markets to Chinese shoe manufacturers by ruling in favour of Aokang and overturning the “anti-dumping” levy imposed by the EC 6 years ago. The judgement is here: http://tinyurl.com/bl4jmtj

November 21, 2012 in Uncategorized.

Ernst and Young: NHS Hospital Procurement not fit for purpose

Only a matter of months prior to the advent of wide-ranging reform of procurement and commissioning in the NHS, research by Ernst and Young suggests that NHS hospital procurement is not working. http://tinyurl.com/csytro4

November 21, 2012 in Uncategorized.

European Cloud Partnership sets off on road to “EU Digital Single Market”

The Steering Board of the new European Cloud Partnership (ECP) met for the first time in Brussels yesterday, kicking-off a process where public authorities and industry work together to help building the EU Digital Single Market for cloud computing pursuant to the European Cloud Computing Strategy. Specifically, the ECP aims at leveraging the public sector’s…

November 21, 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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