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Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups

Nitrous: Public Procurement

What might help tip the balance, is a single directory that aggregates all available opportunities and is searchable by government organisation, location and type. This varies from one government body to another, making planning and applying for other tenders unpredictable.

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Kluwer Arbitration ITA Arbitration Report, Volume No. XXII, Issue No. 5 (May 2023)

Kluwer Arbitration

To rule on Forbes IP’s petition, the Court applied the China Trade test which requires the movant to pass two threshold requirements and prevail on the balancing of five discretionary factors. Mexico and New York) and because Forbes IP’s anti-suit injunction would be dispositive of the Mexico Injunction.

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Stamp of Approval: The Indian Supreme Court Says Yes to Arbitration

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b) the Arbitration Act being a self-contained code, its “dependence on other legislations is either absent or minimal,” and (c) balancing party autonomy with referral to arbitration. This makes the Judgment an important exposition of law in the field of arbitration for India.

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Climate Litigation and Investor-State Arbitration: Implications of the European Court of Human Rights’ Historic Ruling in KlimaSeniorinnen

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In KlimaSeniorinnen , the Court confirmed that the threshold under Article 34 ECHR for individual applicants alleging climate-related harm is “especially high.” According to a 2021 study , since the 2015 Dutch court decision (upheld on appeal) in Urgenda v.

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Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

For example, when we take a whole year of contracts after a transparency reform taking place in May, our estimation may be biased if a procurement regulatory reform happened 5 months later, such as a new reporting threshold introduced.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

” [5] Iron ore prices are down from 2021, but still above 2015-2019 averages. “In For contracts being developed or negotiated during this period of unusually high inflation, an EPA clause may be an appropriate tool to equitably balance the risk of inflation between the Government and contractor. Tenaglia wrote the following.

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The Faith of the Fair and Equitable Treatment Clause in Africa

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Such framing sets a higher threshold for establishing a violation of FET. See, e.g., Brazil-India BIT (2020) ; Brazil-Ethiopia BIT (2018) ; Brazil-Malawi BIT (2015).) The third and less common approach followed by some countries such as Brazil is to exclude FET from investment treaties. ( 6, 12-13).

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