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Understanding the new Procurement Act 2023: What suppliers need to know - Part 2

VWV

Suppliers may remain on this list for up to 5 years and will be unable to bid for public contracts during that time. In practice, this is unlikely to have a significant impact on the award criteria. What changes will I see to the decision to award a contract?

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

A contract notice makes sure everyone knows what’s up for grabs, who’s bidding, and how decisions are made. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. Bid A bid is a proposal that potential suppliers submit in response to a public contract opportunity.

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

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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Did you use AI to write this tender? What? Just asking! -- Also, how will you use AI to deliver this contract?

How to Crack a Nut

It recognises that there ‘are potential benefits to suppliers using AI to develop their bids, enabling them to bid for a greater number of public contracts. While the AI PPN seems to try not to single out the use of generative AI as potentially problematic by equating it to the possible use of (human) bid writers, this is unconvincing.

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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. Besides core fields, TenderNed uses some of the recommended extensions as well, including lots and bid statistics and details.

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

VWV

For contracting authorities and suppliers bidding for public sector contracts, the procurement rules remain largely unchanged, at least for the moment. 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.

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Risk of anti-competitive collusion after excessive level of transparency in public procurement debriefing?

European Law: Public Procurement

On the other hand, for all other criteria, Evropaïki Dynamiki’s tender was less well ranked than that of the successful tenderer. It should be taken into consideration that there is a risk for a strategic use of bid protest mechanisms seems at least twofold.