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Cracking the State aid individual economic advantage requirement on the Portuguese train tender

Telles.eu

On my previous post about *that* train tender in Portugal, I argued that it was quite possible the contract involved a State Aid angle but stopped short of making a more definitive or certain claim. Turns out that Nomad Digital is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alstom after being acquired in January 2017.

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Understanding Minor Deviations in Public Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

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Looking into Antonio Costa legacy as PM from a procurement perspective

Telles.eu

The transposition of the 2014 Directives His first government transposed the 2014 Directives fashionably late in August 2017. As for the 2017 transposition I do not have much to say, but I did say a lot about what was happening below-thresholds. But fashionably late it was nonetheless. I wrote enough about it here , here and here.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

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.

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector

Transparency – A 2017 study of more than four million government contracts in the European Union (EU) found that every additional item of information published about a tender decreased the risk of a single-bid contract. Further, noncorporate Commonwealth entities aim to source at least 20 percent of procurement by value from SMEs.

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India’s federal procurement data infrastructure

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting. Collect information on more details of the tender process and in standardised formats (e.g.,

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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.