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The four key drivers that can enable better IT procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

These frameworks have led to big efficiency wins: the traditional tender procedures take between four months and one year to complete while the framework procedure takes between four and six weeks on average. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Conclusion When the UNCITRAL model procurement law and its Guide to Enactment were concluded in 2012, “green procurement” was just emerging as a critical global imperative.

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Chile’s procurement monitoring system now open to the public

Open Contracting Partnership

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. million relates to open tendering processes that were awarded, US$17.7 Of these, US$19.5

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

European Law: Public Procurement

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

Kluwer Arbitration

In 2012, SANESSOL requested a tariff revision, arguing for the necessity of re-establishing the contractual balance. 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. Pursuant to Municipal Decree No.

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

And those difficulties and clashes are exacerbated by several layers of multi-level governance and decision-making in public procurement, which create additional scope for conflict and contestation in the process of translating general legislative and policy goals into decisions on the design of public tenders and public contracts.

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2023 Year in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Fernandez Arroyo reported that this was an interesting development considering Venezuela’s denunciation of the ICSID Convention in 2012 and its concerns regarding the investment protection system. Corruption allegations in arbitration proceedings relating to Peru remain very common. Following the decision reported last year in Bacilio v.