Interview with Pedro Telles about low value contracts, framework agreements and Brexit implications in public procurement. Final (double length) episode of the Public Procurement Podcast Series 2

Interview with Francesco Decarolis, Associate Professor at Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance in Italy. Francesco is currently a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was recently awarded ERC Starting Grant to investigate reputation and corruption in public procurement.

Interview with Niels Uenk, part-time Researcher at the Public Procurement Research Centre a joint interdisciplinary research centre of the universities of Utrecht and Twente. Before joining academia Niels worked 5 years as international consultant in supply chain and logistics optimization. He specialises in public procurement of long term / social health care services.

Interview with Suvi Taponen, MPA, a doctoral researcher at the Aalto University School of Business who also works as a procurement consultant. She will defend her thesis titled “Improving the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery through Outsourcing and Management” in the beginning of 2017 and worked previously at Hansel, the Finnish centralised purchasing body.

Interview with Baudouin Heuninckx from the Belgian Armed Forces and the University of Nottingham on defence procurement in the EU. Baudouin has just published a book on defence procurement as of November 2016 entitled The Law of Collaborative Defence Procurement in the European Union.

Interview with Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui Ph.D candidate at University of Bergen and member of the Bergen Centre for Competition Law and Economics on centralisation of procurement. His research interests are related to the interaction of public procurement and competition law in particular buyer power in centralised purchasing.

Interview with S N Nyeck from Canterbury Christ Church University on the political economy of development and the role that public procurement plays in transforming institutions and societies. She recently edited a book entitled Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa, published earlier in 2016 by Palgrave Mcmillan.

Interview with Ana Cristina Calderon Rodriguez from the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance on the regulation of public procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ana is currently studying in-depth the creation and establishment of public procurement regulatory and monitoring entities in Latin America. She co-authored a paper entitled ‘Elements of public procurement reform and their effect on the public sector in Latin America and the Caribbean’, which was selected for a Best Paper...

Interview with Warren Smith, Director of the Digital Marketplace, part of the UK's Government Digital Service. Interview about the work done by the DM team in improving digital procurement practice.

Interview with Mari Ann SImovart from the University of Tartu about Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU and limitations to public contract modifications. or her PhD Mari Ann, looked into the relations between national private and EU public procurement laws with regards to public contract terms, modification and validity. The conflicting nature of private law relations of public contracts is best illustrated by rules applicable to amending procurement contracts, an area she keeps researching on.

Interview with Willem Janssen, a Lecturer and PhD Researcher at the Public Procurement Research Centre of Utrecht University and Twente University. His PhD researches the influence of EU public procurement law on the performance of services by cooperating public authorities and the issues of regulating and enforcing the make-or-buy decision of public authorities.

Interview with Petra Ferk, Assistant Professor for public administration at Graduate School of Government and European Studies and a researcher at the Institute for Public-Private Partnership Slovenia. Petra Ferk is the co-author of legal monograph, several articles and national reports dealing with public procurement, services of general (economic) interest (SGEI), public-private partnerships, state aid, energy and environment.

Interview with Carlos Arrebola (University of Cambridge) and Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of Bristol) about the influence Advocate-General opinions may have on decisions by the Court of Justice of the EU. Discussion on underlying topic and methodological issues with this research.

Interview with Stephan Litschig, Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo about audit risk and rent extraction. Interview based on Stephan and Yves Zamboni paper ‘Audit risk and rent extraction, evidence from a randomized evaluation in Brazil’.

Interview with Kirsi-Maria Halonen, Senior Lecturer of Law at University of Lapland on contractual ineffectiveness in public procurement. Kirsi worked previously at Hansel Ltd, the Finnish Government central purchasing body and concluded her Ph.D in August 2015 at the University of Turku

Interview with Grith Skovgaard Olykke, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School on abnormally low tenders in public procurement. Mixed methods research was the second topic of conversation.

Interview with Guilherme Lichand a PhD candidate in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University about his paper on corruption in the Brazilian health sector. His research interests lie at the intersection of Development Economics, Political Economy, and Behavioral Economics. Guilherme has already secured grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Omidyar Network.

Interview with Dr. Sarah Schoenmaekers from Maastricht University about exclusion of candidates in public procurement, particularly Article 57.

Interview with Dr. Richard Craven, Lecturer at the University of Leicester.His research interests lie at the crossroads between law and social sciences, with a particular emphasis in public procurement research methods. This talk has more of a shared approach to it than usual as we both have something to say about research methods in public procurement.

Ama Eyo, lecturer in law at Bangor University and director of the LL.M Public Procurement Law and Strategy. Ama has done extensive research on electronic auctions in public procurement and still going with the theme of electronic procurement she has now turned her attention into dynamic purchasing system.

Interview with Nat Green, a Shaw LLM Fellow at George Washington University in Washington DC about ecolabels and environmental considerations in public procurement. His publications to date focus on the legal and policy implications of large-scale hydropower development, and other renewables in Africa and Asia, in addition to a more recent foray into questions of sustainability in international procurement.

Abby Semple, a Procurement Consultant and postgraduate student at the University of London Birkbeck College, who runs the blog Public Procurement Analysis. She’s also an expert in sustainability in procurement. Earlier this year Abby was one of the first authors out of the gate with A Practical Guide to Public Procurement

Interview with Dr. Ramona Apostol from Corvers Procurement Services about the challenges surrounding procurement of innovation. Ramona is a regular guest lecturer at various academic procurement programmes all over the world. Ramona concluded her PhD at Leiden University in 2014 and is an expert in Procurement of Innovation.