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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

This is a textbook example of artificially narrowing down competition as established by Article 18(1) of the Directive 2014/24/EU. It is evident that there is no immediate overabundance of supply meeting those requirements that is seating on a warehouse somewhere waiting to find a customer so all those contracts would fail.

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Requirements Contracts: Words of Exclusivity

Public Contracting Institute

The Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) awarded two series of contracts to Caring Hands to deliver government-owned home medical equipment from VA warehouses to VA medical beneficiaries. The court labeled these the “2014 contracts” and the “2015 contracts.”