Procurement of textiles from recycled fibres In its procurement of towels and overalls, the Ministry of Defence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (MODNL) followed a circular pol...

The European Commission has adopted an important initiative on public procurement. Public administrations spend €2 trillion yearly in buying public services and goods. That is the equivalent of 14% of...

In order to assist contracting authorities of the Netherlands in upholding social rights, the Ministry of Interior and Kingdomrelations drafted a standard text. The due diligence research helps to ide...

The SPP Regions project, which promotes SPP and PPi in European regional networks of municipalities, has released a Best Practice Report and Collection of Case Studies on Circular Procurement (CP). Ai...

The new revised Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS) for assessing public procurement systems in their entirety is expected for the fall 2017. A preliminary tool is already available i...

Europe's leading e-infrastructures, EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE, PRACE and RDA Europe, invite all researchers, developers and service providers for two days of brainstorming and discussions at the Dig...

The ICT outsourcing initiative of Groningen will carry on, despite findings research by Vtrek and its echoing by the city council and other opposed parties.   "The council of B and W of the munic...

 

 

 

Vtrek's partner organization Corvers' Procurement Services, as part of the eafip consortium, has finalized Module 2 of the eafip toolkit. The eafip Toolkit aims to provide support to policy makers in ...

A new blog post by Andrus Ansip at the European Commission cites the important role of the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (eafip) initiative in training and assisting public procurers....

Applications are now open for a Dutch-speaking student to work on business case methodologies with the ICT implementing agency for the Netherlands Water Boards, Het Waterschapshuis.  As part of the a...

Vtrek Management Consultant Dr. Anne Rainville has just released a working paper examining the roles of dynamics of intermediation in public procurement for a more circular eocnomy. The full text of t...

A new working paper has been published by Prof Nicola Dimitri, the holder of the Corvers' Chair of Innovation Procurement. The paper is entitled "The Economics of the EU Innovation Procurement", and c...

MSM & Het Waterschapshuis Establish a Doctoral Position in Innovation Procurement   Maastricht School of Management and Het Waterschapshuis have  concluded an agreement where Het Waterschapshuis will...

The Law and Economics of EU Innovation Procurement Lecture & webinar organized by the Corvers-MSM Chair in Innovation Procurement Presented by Prof. Dr. Nicola Dimitri and Dr. Anne Rainville Date: ...