Chris Yukins prepared a recorded briefing for Stevens Institute of Technology’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) – Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC) Research Council Meeting on November 13, 2024. In the briefing, Professor Yukins reviewed some of the prior and pending AIRC projects (including on DoD bid protests and mandatory debarment) on which he has worked with David Drabkin, former Senior Procurement Executive (SPE) for the U.S. General Services Administration and chair of the Procurement Roundtable.
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International Public Procurement Conference 9: Umm Al Quwain, UAE
Photo: Umm Al Quwain – Rainer Strehl
David Drabkin and Christopher Yukins presented on October 3, 2024 at the International Public Procurement Conference 9, a regular event which was held this year in the emirate of Umm Al Quwain in the United Arab Emirates. (Because of a surge in armed hostilities in the Gulf, they presented virtually.) Messrs. Drabkin and Yukins discussed the congressionally mandated reports they did on bid protests and mandatory debarment for labor violations, through Stevens Institute of Technology’s Acquisition Innovation Research Center; those studies, they explained, are examples of how, as the OECD has noted, public procurement can be seen more broadly as a form of risk management.
NASPO Law Institute – Framework Agreements – New Orleans
Gian Luigi Albano of Italy’s centralized purchasing agency, CONSIP, joined Keith McCook (a senior procurement attorney in South Carolina government) and GW Law’s Christopher Yukins on November 10, 2023 to discuss the law-and-economics of framework agreements (which in the U.S. system are known as “indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity” contracts).
They spoke at the 10th anniversary meeting of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) Law Institute in New Orleans. The Law Institute is a regular gathering of chief procurement officers (CPOs) and state public procurement attorneys from around the United States.
Webinar – Foreign Subsidies Regulation – April 18, 2023
United Nations – Global Challenges & Next Steps in Procurement Law
Thursday, February 9, 2023 – 11 am-noon ET
GW Law School – 2000 H Street NW, WashINGTON – Room: Stuart HALL 101 (Also can be accessed at 2013 G Street)
Discovering the United Nations system. From addressing global challenges to next steps in procurement reform. A discussion with the Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN.
RSVP – Please contact Antoni Davis at antoni.davis@us.dlapiper.com with questions.
UNCITRAL Days in Africa Workshop on Public Procurement Law Harmonisation
On November 3, 2022 panelists joined with Professor Geo Quinot and Professor Sope Williams from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, for a very interesting discussion of public procurement and international trade across the African continent.
