How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The role of competition in public procurement regulation continues to be debated. Bringing together voices representing a wide range of views, this webinar will explore these issues and provide a space for reflective discussion on competition and public procurement. Free webinar: 22 March 2024 2pm UK / 3pm CET / 4pm EET.

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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.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. Further, the Cabinet Office and National Audit Office also reported that this spend increased to 27% in 2014/2015, surpassing the government target of 25%.

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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. The problem is that as established in the previous post the procedure does not comply with the existing EU procurement rules (ie art 36 of Directive 2014/25/EU) and also art 34 TFEU.

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Telles.eu

MARCH 24, 2023

eForms are an attempt to work within the current straightjacket from 2014 and, obviously, the ambition is constrained by the limitations from the current round of Directives.

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University of Bristol

JULY 15, 2018

Under the Web Accessibility Directive, this translates into an obligation for public sector bodies to ensure that their websites and apps comply with a 2014 EU standard adapted to the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) at level AA (currently WCAG 2.0).

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Telles.eu

APRIL 18, 2023

Albert has already done a deep dive into the Commission's recent Communication on the Public Procurement Data Space , so for those of you that are yet to get acquainted with the Communication his blogpost is probably the best starting point. We need a new round of Directives - or if I had my way - a Public Procurement Regulation.

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Telles.eu

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The European Court of Auditors published yesterday its report on EU public procurement between 2011 and 2021 , looking into the competition for public contracts covered by EU rules. The problem is how to go forward from here but the time to start thinking is now. Its deadline was 18 April 2019.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This is a textbook example of artificially narrowing down competition as established by Article 18(1) of the Directive 2014/24/EU. This is a protectionist measure of the type I have been warning about for ten years how sustainability was going to be weaponised as a protectionist move. The second is more puzzling. What is a growing season?

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 17, 2023

I find the bit of the conversation on the very existence of Article 56 and the content of Article 56(3) Directive 2014/24/EU particularly (ahem) illuminating. If you take Džeina up on her provocation and run your own procurement experiment on ChatGPT (or equivalent), I will be delighted to publish it here as well. Happy reading!

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

Public Procurement: Building Business Cases and Driving Momentum. For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. Social Procurement Framework in European Union.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

This criterion of selecting the tender was announced by European Parliament in January 2014. It takes into account components like Cost, Quality, and Technicality of various bid proposals while deciding a contract award.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 21, 2023

We integrate data from the Treasure Ministry, the Ministry of Education, and the National Public Procurement Agency so that people can provide feedback and know whether or not the funding is reaching the neediest schools in their municipality, according to the Ministry of Education’s prioritization list. .”

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 2, 2024

Also, (ii) Worley allegedly violated the Ecuadorian law by misrepresenting its intention to comply with the 30% subcontracting limit mandated by Article 87 of the Public Procurement Law and subsequently breached this limit. In possible exchange, Worley may have awarded Shaw a US$ 1.2 million contract.

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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Photo credit: Flickr While carrying out research on the impact of digital technologies for public procurement governance, I have realised that the deployment of artificial intelligence to promote sustainability through public procurement holds some promise. In my view, it should be a matter of high priority. *

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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.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the relatively recent developments in the post-Brexit review of UK public procurement law is the February 2021 proposal for the replacement of the current rules on the commissioning of healthcare services for the purposes of the English NHS (for background, you can watch here ), with a new provider selection regime (‘the proposal’).

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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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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of public procurement. The transposition of the 2014 Directives His first government transposed the 2014 Directives fashionably late in August 2017.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 15, 2024

Since the two institutions teamed up to launch the first study for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014, the series has been downloaded more than half a million times from the websites of the two organizations. Public procurement can be used to promote social objectives, sustainability, and environmental responsibility.

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