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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (IV - vehicles)

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After parts I , II and III we finally reach part IV on the purchase or leasing of vehicles (contract type - 5) For these, the Annex establishes four different award criteria and two contract performance clauses/technical specifications, with issues to be found on both, mostly due to the non-technology neutral approach to the drafting.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (II)

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Throughout the Annex we can see these popping up time and time again, both as award criteria and contract performance clauses/technical specifications. It would have been preferable to have a part of the Annex just for award criteria and another for contract performance clauses/technical specifications.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement

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The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. At the very least this particular draft resolution contains instructions binding to government departments as well as the wider public administration such as publicly owned companies for example.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

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In the general government procurement market, which covers primary sectors such as health, education, and infrastructure, estimates put the share of single-source procurement as high as 81% in 2017 1. Open contracting data about general procurement procedures is published on the governments platform goszakup.gov.kz.

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

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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. With data excellence as one of the pillars of their mission, TenderNed has been working on creating better data within the Dutch government for several years.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

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In a nutshell, the government will ban significant parts of the food distribution network within the EU from participating in food procurement in Portugal and thus tilt the market in favour of suppliers and distributors closer to the customer. So what is a 'short supply chain'?

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In Kazakhstan, opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending

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Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. Kazakhstan has radically reformed legislation governing general public procurement, one of the highest risk sectors, but enforcement has been mixed. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.