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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Public Procurement Procurement Award Criteria Procurement Team 52

European Law: Public Procurement

MAY 11, 2012

The two points I will discuss are: Fair trade requirements to products cannot be part of technical specifications but are conditions relating to the performance of the contract; Fair trade criteria can be used as award criteria for public supply contracts. Technical specifications or contract performance conditions?

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Procurement Award Criteria Public Procurement Manufacturing 40

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Award criteria could generate (further) incentives for regulatory performance, perhaps beyond the minimum mandatory baseline. Relatedly, the difficulties in using award criteria to pursue regulatory goals stem from difficulties in the operationalisation of qualitative criteria in practice.

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Telles.eu

JUNE 14, 2023

The procurement procedure was launched in December 2021 and adopted a MEAT approach for the award criteria. This criterion was then further refined with sub-criteria and a 0-100 scaling system. In total, we're talking 117 new trains at a cost close to €800M.

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Tender Manufacturing Capacity Procurement 100

Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The awarded contract worth € 2,4 million was a result of an extensive European tendering procedure which took almost 1 year. The awarding criteria was 60% on quality and 40% on price.

E-catalogue 40

E-catalogue E-procurement Procurement Tender 40

VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

Contract Award Notices and Standstill - The mandatory standstill period is changing under the Act, from 10 calendar days to 8 working days.

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Procurement Bidder Tender Supplier 52

VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

As from 1 January 2021 the guidance on evaluating social value and the recommendation, at least for central government and non-department public bodies, to include a weighting of 10% for social value award criteria also comes into force.

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Procurement Thresholds Award Criteria Tender 40

VWV

JUNE 15, 2021

Many local authorities , universities and other public sector bodies will already be taking steps to design contract specifications, and introduce social value award criteria with these areas in mind.

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Public Procurement Procurement Procurement Team Procurement Strategies 40

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.

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

VWV

AUGUST 29, 2024

This means there should be no substantial amendments to the tender or transparency notice or to the award criteria for the award of the framework. New suppliers can be added to the framework when it is opened to help promote competition, provided the framework is on substantially the same terms.

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Procurement Framework Agreement Tender Supplier 52

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.

Data 52

Data Tender Procurement E-procurement 52

European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

On the other hand, for all other criteria, Evropaïki Dynamiki’s tender was less well ranked than that of the successful tenderer. 29 Finally, the method applied by the Commission for the technical evaluation of the tenders was clearly set out in the tendering specifications relating to the call for tenders at issue.

Collusion 40

Collusion Public Procurement Transparency Tender 40

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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Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics 62

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

Opportunity #5: Public Investment in the Face of Climate Change To address the climate crisis, it is necessary to spend between 2% and 8% of GDP on the provision of infrastructure services.

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Finance Price Sustainability Capacity 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

This is information that will either relate to the technical specifications, award criteria or performance clauses (or all of them) and there is no meaningful way in which AI could be used to deliver the contract without this having an impact on the assessment and evaluation of the tender.

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Tender Contract Bidding Supplier 72

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But many buyers are still reluctant to use such complicated procedures because they’re unsure of how control agencies view the use of award criteria other than lowest price. Printers are the first item on the list of goods that can be purchased using this method. Professionalizing procurement.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120