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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Both the European Union ( Directive 2014/24/EU , Art. One solution would be to bring Article 10 into line with Article 43 of EU Directive 2014/24/EU , to ensure that eco-labels: (a) concern only “criteria which are linked to the subject-matter of the contract and are appropriate to define characteristics.

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Excitement growing over GSA’s COMET II program

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The pool of bidders is going to be huge. COMET replaced the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations (CAMEO) procurement that GSA awarded in 2014 to a host of large and small businesses with a total ceiling of $400 million. Previously, GSA chose small businesses for about 25% of all awards.

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Looking into the State aid angle of the Portuguese train tender

Telles.eu

As it happens, as far as I know, the preferred bidder is going to use the shed for manufacturing the trains. And as we have seen the jury of the procedure could not care less where the trains were actually built since it gave all bidders the same score in the relevant award criterion. The final requirement is also a simple one to meet.

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

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It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. Second, it also breaches the general principles of non discrimination and competition as included in art 36 of Directive 2014/25/EU.

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Will the ECJ mandate protectionism in procurement) -- comments on AG Collins' Kolin Opinion (C-652/22)

How to Crack a Nut

In the Opinion in Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret ( C-652/22, EU:C:2024:212 , hereafter ‘Kolin’), Advocate General Collins has argued that only economic operators established in countries party to international agreements on public contracts that bind the EU may rely on the provisions of Directive 2014/25/EU.

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Did you know many Procurement Team in govt use MEAT as part of evaluation?

Tendersinfo

This criterion of selecting the tender was announced by European Parliament in January 2014. It is well updated in the Tender Document about the above metrics based on which the successful bidder will be announced and also the weightage that each one of the criteria holds.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

I will not focus on the detail of procurement rules, which is better left to in-depth analysis (eg Arrowsmith [2014] and [2018] , Steinicke and Vesterdorf [2018] , or Caranta and Sanchez-Graells [2021] ). Regulation in the EU and the UK , vols 1 & 2 (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2014 and 2018).