Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

A couple of caveats here though: I'm a lot less comfortable discussing state aid than I am public procurement since my expertise is in the latter. As it happens, as far as I know, the preferred bidder is going to use the shed for manufacturing the trains. As for the third, it seems trickier and the harder to nail down concisely.

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Tender Bidder Manufacturing Award Criteria 100

Telles.eu

JUNE 14, 2023

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. The procurement procedure was launched in December 2021 and adopted a MEAT approach for the award criteria. First, it breaches art 34 TFEU.

Tender 100

Tender Manufacturing Capacity Procurement 100

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 7, 2024

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.

Tender 48

Tender Procurement Participation Contract 48

Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

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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Procurement Team Evaluation Tender Procurement 52

Telles.eu

MARCH 23, 2023

Not for the first time the current Portuguese government has expressed significant displeasure at public procurement laws and their enforcement, seeing them as a straightjacket it would be great to get rid of.

Tender 100

Tender Procurement Public Procurement Manufacturing 100

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I was invited to provide an entry on ‘public procurement’ for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law co-edited by Andrea Biondi and Oana Stefan. things going on in procurement. Public Procurement I. Below is my draft entry with perhaps an eclectic choice of content.

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Public Procurement Procurement Buyers Tender 104