In public procurement, citizens and governments benefit from cheaper foreign bids that save public money.
Members are yet to agree on trade in services, competition policy and public procurement.
It is much easier to wax populist about refugees or public health than, say, about capital goods or public procurement.
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Similar rules cover public procurement in the UK, Canada and other places.
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Public procurement will account for 14% of the 40 million PCs sold annually in China this year, estimates market research firm IDC.
They agreed to a proposal to shift the Thatcher debate to Thursday - while moving Thursday's business, a debate on public procurement, to Wednesday.
It concerns breaking a public procurement law by getting a contract (for supplying clocks with information panels to schools in Aquitaine) without a competitive tender.
As for BYD, the domestic battery maker turned automaker, its electric cars have yet to find a market outside of public procurement in its home base of Shenzhen.
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All these things flow from Mr Monti's responsibility for the single market and financial services, a portfolio that also includes matters of public procurement, taxation and intellectual property.
Bridgwater MP Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con) spoke in an adjournment debate in the Commons on Tuesday and described the deal as a "classic example of how not to do public procurement".
Mr Orban plans a radical overhaul of Hungary's complex tax system, an attack on the black economy, a simplification of the bureaucracy and new laws bringing openness to public procurement.
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In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel show that there is, indeed, a spillover effect to the private sector.
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While Ms. Choure didn't define what the pact would entail, the Indian government has been asking companies and individuals who bid for various types of government contracts to sign such integrity pacts since 2006, as a way to safeguard public procurement from corruption.
Green MSP Alison Johnstone called for local produce to be the default choice for public food procurement.
The next is to take on the large public-procurement market, which often accounts for as much as 15-20% of GDP.
The Thatcher debate has been swapped with a government debate on public sector procurement which will now take place on Wednesday afternoon.
Both funds have been aggressive bidders for most public-procurement contracts in Slovakia.
America liked China's promises on intensified military contacts and on public-procurement policies.
At the heart of the scandal lie allegations that bribes worth millions of euros were paid to officials to win various public-procurement and privatisation contracts.
One EU benchmark involves opening Turkey's public-procurement market to European firms.
The report, Generating Economic Benefit and Growth Through Smarter Public Sector Procurement, written by UK-based procurement expert Colin Cram, has been supported by Rosslyn Analytics.
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Polish ministers say they have at last woken up to the need to move faster, sort out their creaking public-procurement system and generally play the EU game.
Companies drop on or off depending on things like acquisitions, public offerings and new procurement information.
This education experiment gave people the confidence to push an overhaul of policing, city procurement and other public services.
He added they would consider the report and work with unions on guidance for future procurement processes and public contracts.
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a public-private partnership that sets nationalpolicies for organ allocation and screening, and the United Network for Organ Sharing, which operates the system, are formulating a policy for living-donor screening that would keep patients safe without compromising organ availability, said Connie L. Davis, who chairs the panel working on the policy.
Some 40 countries have signed up to the government-procurement agreement (GPA) to open public contracts.
However, Mr Clay said in his speech that, as under the Moi regime, much public money continues to be siphoned off through dodgy procurement contracts.
But procurement remains awkwardly split between the defence and public-works ministries.
The UUP's David McNarry said access to procurement opportunities for small businesses was an important way to regenerate the economy and keep as much public money in NI as possible.
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