How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Dagne Sabockis, ‘ The Principle of Competition in the Context of Green Public Procurement – the Case of Green Award Criteria ’ (2023) 18(4) EPPPL 237-243 (£/€). Albert Sanchez-Graells, ‘Competition and procurement regulation’ in Carina Risvig Hamer et al (eds), Into the Northern Light – In memory of Steen Treumer (Ex Tuto, 2022) 65-81.

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VWV

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement represents a radical change to the UK procurement laws which promises consolidation of the current public procurement framework, greater flexibility in the procurement process and award criteria and increased transparency. When Will This Come Into Effect? This has now been delayed.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Affecting around 4000 public buyers, the decree defines procurement as ‘green’ if it uses green criteria, recognized certificates, ecolabels or environmental management systems for no less than 50% of total procurement value. The LPPO had to learn on the go about the challenges of using green criteria.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

They are also working on tools to help contracting authorities to analyze their own data, for example, to monitor the average lead time of their tenders, or decide which award criteria to use when preparing a tender. They used the data to address specific agencies, and posted about it on LinkedIn.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the EU, the TED data was somewhat incomplete; for example, in 2022, about 75% of the 7,817 procurement notices contained technical criteria (the rest expressed these criteria in separate documents that would have needed to be downloaded from individual procurement authority’s websites), and only about 50% contained non-price award criteria.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In late 2022, this question led them to look at value added tax (VAT), the second highest source of revenue for Kazakhstan’s budget. Despite dropping from 61% in 2020, the share of non-competitive procedures in 2022 was around 42% by quantity and 34% by value, according to the public business intelligence platform.

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