Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Around the world, governments are embracing “green procurement” – environmentally sustainable strategies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution. government in April 2024 issued a final rule calling for contracting officials to plan to procure sustainable and services “to the maximum extent practicable.”

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Early this year, the European Union (“EU”) finalized the required internal procedures for the entry into force of the Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement concluded between the European Union and the Republic of Angola on 18 November 2022 (“SIFA” or the “Agreement”).

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Last week in Rome, we brought together over 100 leaders from 26 European governments , EU institutions, global organizations like the World Bank, OECD, EBRD, and UNOPS, civil society, and the private sector for the 3rd International Open and Sustainable Public Procurement Conference 2024. This trend started long before Covid.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Establishing a Diversity Committee that introduced the ACICA Wing Person Initiative , and a Sustainability Taskforce , which recently produced a draft Sustainability Protocol for public consultation, to be discussed at ACICA’s sustainability event during AAW. In 2024, this figure is at 60%. Past interviews are available here.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 23, 2024

The substantial award at issue is of a particularly high value and fraud and corruption elements arise in both the procurement of the underlying contracts and also the awards themselves. These rules replace the previous CRCICA Arbitration Rules 2011. Additional 2023 year in review posts are available here.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At the appeal stage, the Portuguese State successfully sustained that the COVID-19 pandemic should have been considered a force majeure event under the Concession Agreement and that the arbitral tribunal should therefore have excluded the applicability of the change in circumstances institute.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Factual Background The arbitration was initiated in 2012 by HSBC PI Holdings (Mauritius) Limited (“ HSBC ”) against Avitel Post Studioz Limited (“ Avitel ”) and its founder and directors under a Share Subscription Agreement executed in April 2011 (“ SSA ”). Under the SSA, HSBC had invested USD 60 million in Avitel to acquire 7.8%

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