South African Suppliers Call For Local Content Rules, India Applies Local Preference to Auto Tenders, and Bombardier Loses VIA Train Tender
By Paul Emanuelli and Lisa Kuechler
This week’s newsreel includes a New Brunswick case allowing a low-bid bypass for local preference, other local preference stories out of South Africa and India, corruption, nepotism and non-compliance claims in India and Nigeria, bid shopping concerns in Denver, procurement delays impacting the Louisiana election, Oracle filing multiple counts in a military bid protest, Ontario striking down municipal “closed shop” union rules, the latest round of Canadian federal controversies involving the failed Phoenix system and the disputed frigate design contract, and VIA’s decision to bypass Bombardier in a recent train tender.
Legal Update
Court Allows Local Preference Bypass
News Update
South African Suppliers Call For Local Content Rules
India Applies Local Preference to Auto Tenders
India’s Supreme Court Rejects Call for Corruption Probe
Report Claims Nepotism and Non-Compliance in Nigeria
Denver Stops Convention Tender Over Bid-Rigging
Failed Bid Means No Machines for Louisiana Election
Oracle Claims Seven Counts in Military Bid Protest
Ontario Takes Aim at “Closed Shop” Union Bid Law
Phoenix System Mired in Training Issues
