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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs. One goal may be to contract with companies that are good stewards and take an active role in reducing their own environmental footprint.

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Frameworks under the Procurement Act - FAQs

VWV

In this guide we offer practical insights into using frameworks under the new Procurement Act (the Act) and highlight some of the important changes introduced by the Act. Framework agreements are a useful tool for procuring common goods, services and works. What is the maximum length of a framework?

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

Introduction From up close, public procurement law can be seen as the set of mostly procedural rules controlling the way in which the public sector buys goods, services, and works from the market. Public Procurement I.

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector. It is thus interesting to see how the PA23 has articulated its view of the public interest. Equally, in ss.

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Direct Awards of PPE Contracts - What Lessons Can Be Learnt?

VWV

The most common grounds for direct awards of new contracts under Regulation 32 (use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 include where: No tenders or suitable tenders have been submitted in a previously advertised open or restricted procedure.

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Remedies When The Government Ceases Paying a Contractor, Grantee, or Cooperatee

Procurement Notes

11] If a Contracting Officer is uncertain as to the proper interest rate to apply, assistance may be obtained from the Department of Treasurys Financial Management Service (FMS) at 1-800-266-9667. [12] 12] The Bureau of the Fiscal Service also offers an online PPA interest calculatoravailable here. [13] 962 (2015). 2014), cert.

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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 Ultimately, DoD adding EPA clauses to already-existing fixed-price contracts really should be focused on the preservation of important capabilities and capacity in the defense industrial base. dollars per dmtu in the same month of the previous year.”