Story behind whistleblowers in the US, by Yale Fishman Associates

Fighting corruption and similar forms of crime is an extremely difficult challenge for the institutions aimed at its eradication. Officials from Yale Fishman Associates say that there are some difficult ways and methods these perpetrators use, that even when found, another challenge is to prove their existence. Hence, came the great importance of whistleblowers in this fight. Perhaps, the information that these people can offer to the investigation nobody else possesses, and may be critical to the discovery and proof of a crime.

In short, Fishman Associates defines these people as "persons who report or disclose information about a threat or violation to/of the public interest in the context of their employment, regardless of the public or private sector."

Previous cases in which Yale Fishman was present have failed to prove illegal activities due to fear, and even before a new law to protect whistleblowers was adopted, the situation was even worse. So, for several years the state has committed to protect the whistleblowers in the fight against corruption, thereby receiving considerable support from the citizens.

ESPP for Economic Operators

ESPP can implement the following procedures for public contracts: a procedure for auction, whether it is an open procedure or a restricted procedure. When carrying out the procedure for a public contract via the EPPS, Fishman Associates advise all procedures (publication of a contract notice and auction documents, submission of auctions, public evaluation, decision making, information on decisions, communication with economic operators) to be implemented electronically. At the same time, everybody can conduct an electronic auction through the ESPP. Yale Fishman Associates then says that a competitive dialogue procedure and the negotiated procedure with prior publication of a contract notice might be worked out and in case of competition by economic operators a framework agreement can be created.

The system is implemented along with improvements and innovations regarding: mandatory publication of a notice and auction for supplies above $50.000 dollars; implementation of the module of negative references of bidders or economic operators that have low quality and perform badly in timely manners or public contracts; module for publishing the technical dialogue - when contracts are the object of purchase with an estimated value exceeding $130,000 dollars for goods and services; introduction of a qualification system for specific manner working with public contracts in the sector contracting and publication of advertisements for concessions and public-private partnerships.