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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement

Telles.eu

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. This means the public sector in Portugal will have less than 3 months to adapt to a fairly significant change in the way it carries out public procurement.

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

JUNE 14, 2023

For the most part the sheltered workshop claim is a red herring since the contract was not reserved as per Article 38 of Directive 2014/25/EU, nor was it a condition of performance since there were marks available to be obtained by economic operators. And in the best case, a better one." This is, self-evidently, illegal on two main counts.

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Looking into the State aid angle of the Portuguese train tender

Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

When I published my first entry into the Portuguese train tender , I received an email tipping me off to a potential other issue with it. 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. Or so it would seem at first glance.

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The four key drivers that can enable better IT procurement

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. The G-Cloud initiative in the UK provides a framework for public sector organizations to easily and cost-effectively procure cloud computing services.

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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

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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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As these common “green procurement” strategies are adopted by governments around the world, the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) model law on public procurement , last revised in 2011, could be updated to facilitate implementation. Both the European Union ( Directive 2014/24/EU , Art.

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Scottish Procurement Vlog – September 2024

Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

For further information on public procurement in Scotland please visit www.gov.scot/procurement Please email enquiries to scottishprocurement@gov.scot Follow us online: Single speaker transcript, Nick Ford: Hi everyone. Welcome to my second vlog of 2024. A really good and enjoyable event.

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Do electric ferries dream of batteries?

Telles.eu

MARCH 23, 2023

Transtejo, the public company who runs the ferries in Lisbon acquired 10 electric ferries to renew its fleet with the Portuguese Audit Court torpedoing the whole thing when running its legality assessment of the contract(s). The company doesn’t bite and both attempts fail.

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

Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) is the measure for selecting the best out of the incoming bids based on factors that are related to the subject matter of the contract. This criterion of selecting the tender was announced by European Parliament in January 2014.

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A missed opportunity to provide meaningful clarification on state aid analysis of procurement compliance and some problematic ‘obiter dicta’ (C-28/23)

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Slovak Government argued that the agreements were null and void because, combined and from the outset, the grant agreement and AFSA would have had the unavoidable effect of getting the stadium built and transferred to the State, and thus covered up the illegal direct award of a public works contract to NFŠ.

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Are there any gains to be had from the proposed new provider selection model for NHS commissioning?

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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Testing the limits of ChatGPT’s procurement knowledge (and stubbornness) – guest post by Džeina Gaile

How to Crack a Nut

MAY 17, 2023

Džeina asked a few easy questions on the topic of her PhD research (tender clarifications). 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. Happy reading!

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AI & sustainable procurement: the public sector should first learn what it already owns

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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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

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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Supplier Diversity: From Checking-the-Box to a C-Suite Strategy

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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Looking into Antonio Costa legacy as PM from a procurement perspective

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. I wrote enough about it here , here and here.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement

Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

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Looking into the State aid angle of the Portuguese train tender

The four key drivers that can enable better IT procurement

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

Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Scottish Procurement Vlog – September 2024

Do electric ferries dream of batteries?

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

A missed opportunity to provide meaningful clarification on state aid analysis of procurement compliance and some problematic ‘obiter dicta’ (C-28/23)

Are there any gains to be had from the proposed new provider selection model for NHS commissioning?

Testing the limits of ChatGPT’s procurement knowledge (and stubbornness) – guest post by Džeina Gaile

AI & sustainable procurement: the public sector should first learn what it already owns

Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

Supplier Diversity: From Checking-the-Box to a C-Suite Strategy

Looking into Antonio Costa legacy as PM from a procurement perspective

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