Open Contracting Partnership
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever. This was not always the case.
European Law: Public Procurement
OCTOBER 8, 2012
In its Judgment of 4 October 2012 in case C‑629/11 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission (ESP-ISEP) , the Court of Justice has issued another interesting decision on what should be considered sufficient debriefing of disappointed bidders in public procurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).
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American City & Country
AUGUST 28, 2024
Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs.
The Procurement School
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Procurement decisions were largely one-dimensional – with economic interests being the first choice. ESG practices are driven in the supply sector by the largest player on the demand side, public procurement. The solutions are not secrets. The weighting on environmental and social values continues is tempering pricing.
European Law: Public Procurement
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Even if they may seem two – rather disconnected – areas of legal practice, reading cases on EU public procurement and on EU trademark law sometimes offers interesting insights into broader issues of EU economic law or, more generally, EU law. Moreover, she could not sue without knowing what those reasons are.
Kluwer Arbitration
MARCH 27, 2024
Most of the exceptions to the prohibition for public entities to have recourse to arbitration are listed in Article L. 2197-6 of the Public Procurement Code ) and to include arbitration agreements in public-private partnerships so far as French law applies ( Article L.2236-1 21BX00596 ) before reaching the Conseil d’Etat.
How to Crack a Nut
OCTOBER 22, 2024
It is worth recalling that Auroux (C-220/05, EU:C:2007:31 ) concerned a case involving the signing of an agreement between a municipality and a special purpose vehicle with separate balance sheet to run a re-generation programme. Therefore, this statement is also obiter dictum.
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