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Risk of anti-competitive collusion after excessive level of transparency in public procurement debriefing?

European Law: Public Procurement

22 Similarly, the contracting authority is not under an obligation to provide an unsuccessful tenderer, upon written request from it, with a full copy of the evaluation report (see order of 20 September 2011 in Case C‑561/10 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission, paragraph 25).

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

The urgent need to stem these ills led to the first wave of reforms that saw an overhaul of colonial era and post-independence procurement structures in the form of Tender Boards that were characterized by centralized procurement, lack of transparency, outdated legal framework and weak dispute management mechanisms.

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Arbitration With Public Entities in Brazil: Must Regulatory Agencies Participate?

Kluwer Arbitration

Background The Appeal was filed by SANESSOL, a company that was awarded a public bid for the provision of sanitation services in the City of Mirassol by the Municipality of the city in 2007. In 2012, SANESSOL requested a tariff revision, arguing for the necessity of re-establishing the contractual balance. Pursuant to Municipal Decree No.

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LIDW 2024: Bank Collapse and ISDS: Arbitration Strategy and Dramatis Personae

Kluwer Arbitration

Questions ranging from how the situation may evolve into an ISDS case, whether it is possible to deal with the potential dispute inhouse or how to establish the tender procedure for outside counsel require immediate attention by the state. A quick analysis of the situation is therefore warranted.

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Duty to give reasons under EU procurement law and EU trademark law: is there a contradiction?

European Law: Public Procurement

For instance, some recent case law on the duty to provide reasons under each of the specific adminsitrative procedures that govern contract tendering and trademark registration shows what, in my view, is rather a contradiction. Moreover, she could not sue without knowing what those reasons are.

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A missed opportunity to provide meaningful clarification on state aid analysis of procurement compliance and some problematic ‘obiter dicta’ (C-28/23)

How to Crack a Nut

Relatedly, the Slovak Government stated that despite containing explicit references to the tendering of the construction of the stadium, the State aid Decision cannot preempt a fresh assessment of the compliance of this legal structure with EU procurement rules. To my mind, it did so implicitly, which explains paragraph 8 of its Decision SA.46530.

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GAO Bid Protests: Required Debriefings

Procurement Notes

B-298333.3 , 2007 CPD ¶ 9, at 3 n.1 9, 2007) [14] Tolling means that the running of a legally provided time period is paused or halted. [15] 27] See Rhonda Podojil-Agency Tender Official, B-311310 , 2008 CPD ¶ 94, at 1 (May 9, 2008). [28] 11] FAR 15.501. [12] 12] FAR 33.101. [13] 13] See Exceptional Software Strategies, Inc.,

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