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Who Are the Key Players in Public Procurement?

Tracker Intelligence

In the UK, public procurement is essential to providing high-quality public services. Companies wishing to work with public sector organisations must know who the key players in public procurement are. It is essential in maintaining the integrity of procurement processes.

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

VWV

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? Unsuccessful suppliers will receive a further explanation of why they are not being awarded the contract as well as how the winning supplier scored against the award criteria.

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Update on Timing for Public Procurement Reforms

VWV

The Cabinet Office has recently revised timescales for the public procurement reforms and postponed introducing the draft Procurement Bill into Parliament. The draft Procurement Bill was originally anticipated to be introduced into Parliament this Autumn. What's Changing? When Will This Come Into Effect?

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

Open Contracting Partnership

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. And two-thirds of public spending is conducted through an opaque quasi-governmental sector. Public procurement is a huge field for the work of NGOs.

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

European Law: Public Procurement

In its Judgment of 4 October 2012 in case C‑629/11 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission (ESP-ISEP) , the Court of Justice has issued another interesting decision on what should be considered sufficient debriefing of disappointed bidders in public procurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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Fair-trade coffee and tea under the procurement directive

European Law: Public Procurement

Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the public procurement directive (directive 2004/18/EC)? This is one of the issues underlying the judgment of the Court in Case C-368/10 Commission v. Netherlands.