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Procurement, State Aid, and the Brexit Transition - What Happens Now?

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Some minor amendments have been made to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to ensure the rules will work in practice for a UK domestic system. For example, procurement notices will be published on the Find a Tender service , rather than the Official Journal of the European Union. What About State Aid?

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Arbitration With Public Entities in Brazil: Must Regulatory Agencies Participate?

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This, however, is not the most interesting aspect of the discussion, as the revision of the Brazilian Arbitration Act in 2015 buried most discussions in that regard and both the Contract and the Notice contained clear arbitration agreements.

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Frameworks under the Procurement Act - FAQs

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A list of the relevant CPV codes can be found in the Contract or Tender Notice and supporting documentation. The total anticipated value of the framework must be advertised in the Contract or Tender Notice. Also, determine whether there is scope to negotiate the call off terms and conditions.

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

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The public procurement rules recognise there are certain circumstances when public bodies, including universities, can derogate from the general principle of advertising and tendering contract opportunities and directly award a contract. The two key derogations relate to the direct award of new contracts and modifying existing contracts.

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Essential Supplies and Services - Procurement Relief for Extreme Urgency

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The procurement regulations permit in cases of "extreme urgency" for a contracting authority to directly appoint a contractor to provide essential works, services and suppliers under the negotiated procedure without a call for competition. There have been many cases where extreme urgency has been argued, but to date none have been successful.

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GAO Bid Protests: Required Debriefings

Procurement Notes

2305(b) , and FAR 6.401(b) , it is apparent that the term implies competitive negotiation source selection procedures, as typified by FAR Part 15 but not necessarily limited to FAR Part 15. [19] The Competitive Negotiation in a Trojan Horse The 2020 U.S. . § 3703 , 10 U.S.C. See, e.g., Centerra Integrated Facilities Servs.,

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

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Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.