#34 Visual contracting in public procurement & Best/worst presentations

BESTEK - The Public Procurement Podcast

In this episode, Willem and Marta discuss visual contracting in the context of public procurement. Can it improve the contracting process? If so, how? They explore the potential of visual contracts and possibilities to apply it in the public sector based on Marta's forthcoming publication in PPLR. For desert, they look at their best and worst presentations to share their learnings from them. Your Title Goes Here Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings. Episode Transcript 00:00:00 Willem Janssen Welcome to Bestek, the Public Procurement podcast. Today, Marta and I are discussing visual contracts in public procurement. 00:00:13 Bestek Voice Welcome to the Bestek, the Public Procurement podcast. In this podcast, Doctor Willem Janssen and Doctor Marta Andhov discuss public procurement law issues, their love of food and academic life. In each episode, Willem, Marta, and their guests search for answers to intriguing public procurement questions. This is Bestek. Let's dish out public procurement law. 00:00:37 Willem Janssen Hello. 00:00:38 Marta Andhov Hello. 00:00:41 Willem Janssen Ohh, going to be great at this. 00:00:42 Marta Andhov I feel like it's going to be very rusty today. 00:00:46 Willem Janssen Is it gonna be rusty? No, I don't think it's gonna be rusty at all. We're talking, of course, about public procurement. We're talking about public procurement law. It won't be a surprise that today we're really delving into something out there that I think is quite full. 00:01:01 Marta Andhov Bonkers. 00:01:03 Willem Janssen A bit bonkers, one of the, maybe the subheading of this episode will be something like comic books and public procurement, simplifying the process or going crazy, right? 00:01:11 Marta Andhov Yeah, it's funny that you say that. I'm giving a presentation on this topic next week. And that's exactly how I title it or I think I even maybe suggested the title for this podcast that we should ask like, are we going crazy? Like what are we trying to do here? 00:01:29 Willem Janssen Maybe we should sometimes... Certain questions you shouldn't ask if you're not willing to receive the answer, so maybe we won't ask this question, but if people have been thinking that we're going crazy, we should have stopped this podcast a while ago already. 00:01:42 Marta Andhov It gets less crazy. Let's just maybe say it this way. Like, if you looked at this from a perspective like, OK, so, comic book contracts, comics in procurement that they absolutely lost their mind. We got you. We got you with the hook of you just being interested and kind of feeling, let me get some popcorn and listen to this madness. I promise that we're going to frame it in a way that it actually makes a bit of sense. 00:02:07 Willem Janssen All right, fantastic. Let me run you through what we're doing today in this episode, we'll talk a bit about why you started working on visual contracts, why you took the step to apply it in public procurement, then we'll run through a bit of the nitty gritty, right, go through why that's relevant, why we should perhaps be talking about it more and what legal issues arise when you take that step. And then for dessert, we'll talk a bit about presentations. We've given a lot of presentations and perhaps also looking at one that we're proud of and one that we wish perhaps never happened, and in that sense, I find that in the dessert we're always trying to be open a bit and try to perhaps share some of our learnings and be OK with that, I hope. But let's start at the very beginning, just like the Sound of Music, right,