00:30:34 Christopher Yukins: A gentle request to participants -- please put questions into the chat, as we may not have time in the hour to address the "raised hands" Many many thanks. 00:33:09 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: Is your country/organisation using specific "COVID" Tools to monitor contracts and Awards? 00:34:40 Christopher Yukins: Yes, the Defense Production Act could be used, either to control all elements of the production process (which hasn't been done), to reinforce the productive capacity of selected producers (which has been done) or to step in front of other customers (which has been done by the federal government, and is very controversial) 00:35:19 Laura Kuoraite: Apologies for repetition, that was meant for everyone: Lithuania has opened the data on Covid19 related contracts (parties of the contract, volume, type of purchase). 00:35:29 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: Interesting 00:36:25 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: Public and online? 00:36:58 Laura Kuoraite: Yes, indeed. 00:38:38 Michael Bowsher: The UK’s Procurement Policy Note on Responding to Covid-19 states that all entities entering into direct awards must keep proper records of all decision and actions on individual contracts and should publish a contract award notice under 30 days of awarding the contract. Whether that will be done is another question. 00:40:18 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: That is good practice. As well as tracking contracts with identified COVID number for each of these contracts 00:40:32 Gian Luigi Albano: I myself will only talk about today's two fraud cases 00:40:54 Laura Kuoraite: I could provide a link to that data, if anyone would like to see how it looks like. 00:41:46 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: This is the point: it should not be done too late this time 00:42:17 Christopher Yukins: The chat session will be published on the www.publicprocurementinternational.com website with the program materials, and I will gladly copy the link above to the accompanying "COVID-19 Procurement Resources" page. Thank you. 00:43:09 Harry Zambika: Noted Chris 00:43:36 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: @Mirella: not only in Poland. Many countries are doing the same 00:46:25 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: This is why we need to push for minimal emergency transparency requirements in case of emergency contracts 00:47:53 Laurent Leger: @Laura yes please! Thanks 00:48:50 Ian clarke: Question, would it be more appropriate to collaborate at a WHO and UN level to manage the sourcing of specialist equipment in a global crisis. This would take some of the competition problems out of the supply market. I guess national political ideology may be a real issue with this approach? 00:49:07 Laura Kuoraite: https://vpt.lrv.lt/sudarytos-sutartys-kovai-su-covid-19 00:49:22 Laurent Leger: thanks 00:49:23 Pierre FAURE: Thanks ! 00:50:15 Thomas Hendrix: @Shaun Scott: I think what is important is having agile teams on the ground that can make decisions and solve problems. What we are doing is certainly unconventional, so we need to be extremely focused on following the lead of NYC and filling gaps in manpower. The City has limited resources, but we can all find some way to serve. Right now, our team has focused on this one part of the puzzle. Keeping focused on an area that we can actually be helpful in has been important. As we think about the lessons learned in NYC, I believe that what we are doing is more a framework than a prescription. 00:52:45 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: This is the point: emergency procurement are often understood as being exempted from transparency requirements. What type of prior contract tool (s) your organization is using to prevent F&C? 00:53:00 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: Question for all 00:54:01 Christopher Yukins: To Anuska Delic -- The next phase in the crisis (we call it "Phase II" in these webinars) is the question whether essential supplies wlll be transshipped from countries that hold excess supplies where the pandemic has receded, to new "hotspots." We will have a webinar on April 14 to discuss the import and export restraints constraining those life-saving transshipments. One alternative strategy will be to ship "money" instead -- funds transfers to the nations in desperate need, in a chaotic and high-priced market. 00:54:33 Christopher Yukins: Thank you very much Dr. Wert. 00:58:18 Christopher Yukins: What Tommy is doing falls within our national concept of patriotism, and 400 years of history in New York City dealing with epidemics, fires, etc. -- there is regular cooperation between the public sector and the private sector in the City's tradition and history. 01:00:14 Anuška Delić: Hi Christopher, thank you. I will put it in my schedule. 01:00:23 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: @Magda. Agreed 01:01:35 Christopher Yukins: To Leslie Austin: Tommy will discuss in our online class this evening some techniques that are being used to ensure delivery, such as "proof of life" photos -- a man standing in front of a pallet with a bill of lading -- being used to deal with delivery risk and fraud. 01:03:47 Isabel Rosa: In PT all public contracts are published here www.base.gov.pt 01:04:13 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: Thanks 01:04:18 Isabel Rosa: Thank you, Laura. 01:05:06 Thomas Hendrix: @ Shaun S. - Problem solving. As you can imagine there are companies and individuals that want to support, but many are operating in industries or geographies that are unfamiliar. For example, we received a large donation of materials from a company that came on trucks too large for NYC streets. So we coordinated to have it delivered to a warehouse outside of the city and then trucks from a NYC department store picked it up and made final leg of delivery. There were a lot of organizations involved, some volunteering their time, some under contract with NYC. So there needed to be a single point for coordination and that’s where we stepped in. So we are wearing a lot of hats, but don’t have a single mandate. 01:08:02 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: You all can all that F&C in the COVID situation is a very rich topic. Hope we may have another session covering other related points. 01:08:12 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: you can all see... 01:08:30 Isabel Rosa: https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset/ted-1 open data sets from TED 01:11:47 Gian Luigi Albano: @Stéphane. Indeed a very good point 01:11:55 Laurence Folliot Lalliot: Good points Stephane 01:21:21 Shaun Scott: Thank you Thomas Hendrix. 01:24:03 Christopher Yukins: Ben Koberna is from EASiBUY and assisting agencies making purchases in the United States and Latin America. He has been on our previous webinars. 01:25:26 Michael Bowsher: I would underline Aris’ point. The Communication is very useful, but it is surprising that it does not make clearer that the usual general principles still apply, even if they may be doing so in a rather modified form. However at this time there may well be security for supply issues, for instance, which do justify a very specific limitation on cross border trade.