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Striving for data excellence: How the Netherlands’ TenderNed is enabling procurement insights for government and public users

Open Contracting Partnership

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. All Dutch authorities must publish their above-the-threshold tenders via the TenderNed platform , so businesses can access all public data and documents from a single webpage.

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Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups

Nitrous: Public Procurement

These figures aren’t helped by the fact that the proportion of public sector contracts awarded without a competitive tender is rising ( 15 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent in 2017 and then 23 per cent in 2018 ). This varies from one government body to another, making planning and applying for other tenders unpredictable.

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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

The State aid measure was then revised in 2016 (the ‘grant agreement’), and the Slovak Government also granted NFŠ a unilateral put option to sell the stadium to the State, under certain conditions, during the five years following its completion (the ‘agreement to enter into a future sales agreement’ or ‘AFSA’). In short, Decision SA.46530

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GAO Bid Protests: Required Debriefings

Procurement Notes

For example, FAR 16.505(b)(1)(iii)(B)( 2 ) states, regarding an order that exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold, that a Contracting Officer shall “[a]fford all contractors responding to the notice a fair opportunity to submit an offer and have that offer fairly considered.” B-412729 , 2016 CPD ¶ 88, at 2-3 (Mar. B-414220.2

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