2018
DECEMBER 13
Deferred Prosecution Agreements Now Part of Canada's Anti-Corruption Landscape
The global battle against corruption began to escalate in the mid-2000s in direct proportion to the rise of the emerging economies. With the United States' dramatically scaling enforcement of its own Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the stage was set for what has become a global crusade against corruption...
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DECEMBER 05
Getting More Innovation In Healthcare Procurement
In an earlier column in this space, I described the Competitive Dialogue as a form of innovation procurement that allows hospitals to generate more value from their procurements...
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MAY 16
How The Fairness In Procurement Act, 2018, is Ontario's Answer To American Protectionism
As if hospital staff aren't busy enough. The enactment in Ontario of the Fairness in Procurement Act, 2018 (the "Act") on March 8, 2018 will almost certainly ensure that some staff have more to do, especially when regulations are passed that trigger potentially important consequences for both the hospital and the supplier responding to bidding opportunities...
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FEBRUARY 05
Value-Based Procurement In Healthcare: Why We Really Need The Competitive Dialogue...Urgently!
It's become a truism that value-based care requires hospitals and other health providers to adopt a different, more proactive mindset towards the treatment of patients...
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2017
NOVEMBER 17
The Rise Of The Trade Agreements: New Obligations, New Opportunities
One of the conditions by the members of the European Union for launching into free trade negotiations with Canada in 2009 was that local government procurement — the so-called subnational level of government — be included within the scope of the negotiations...
