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Yesterday I looked into the main text of the draft Council of Ministers Resolution introducing mandatory green publicprocurement in Portugal. The criteria or contract-related critiques will come on Monday and hopefully, Tuesday. I had assumed that looking into it would be a two part affair.
The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green publicprocurementcriteria 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.
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 awardcriteria 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.
I will be doing the post on vehicles sometime later this week Contract type 15 - food products, catering and automated vending For food procurement, the text of the Resolution and contract type 15 include a reference to the need to have 'short supply chains'. So what is a 'short supply chain'? Is it of the contract value? The volume?
The achievement Kazakhstan has seen a dramatic decline in the use of single-source procurement in recent years. In the general publicprocurement market (valued at around US$19 billion annually), direct awards have dropped from 81% of the value of all procedures in 2017 to 23.5%
The PublicProcurement Glossary Publicprocurement can feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms and endless abbreviations. Thats exactly why this Publicprocurement glossary existsto make things simple. What Is PublicProcurement? Youre not alone! It is like shopping but on a bigger scale.
In practice, this is unlikely to have a significant impact on the awardcriteria. 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 awardcriteria.
In the UK, publicprocurement is essential to providing high-quality public services. Companies wishing to work with public sector organisations must know who the key players in publicprocurement are.
Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s publicprocurement. And two-thirds of public spending is conducted through an opaque quasi-governmental sector. Publicprocurement is a huge field for the work of NGOs.
A couple of caveats here though: I'm a lot less comfortable discussing state aid than I am publicprocurement since my expertise is in the latter. To do this properly, then the shed should be assessed via the awardcriteria. So far, so good. Or so it would seem at first glance. There are a couple of problems here.
The National Procurement Policy Statement this month applies to all contracting authorities who are subject to the procurement rules. Whilst broadly welcomed it raises a number of practical challenges for local authorities and the wider public sector. What Does the National Procurement Policy Statement Say?
Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s publicprocurement 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.
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 publicprocurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).
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Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the publicprocurement 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.
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Press release Utrecht & Sofia December 15, 2017 Dutch software company Negometrix to develop the national procurement system for all Bulgarian Public Entities On December 15, 2017 Negometrix as part of a consortium, signed a contract with the PublicProcurement Agency of the Republic of Bulgaria.
I continue exploring the use of publicprocurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.
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 awardcriteria to use when preparing a tender. The OCDS publication provides data from 2016 from the tender and award stages of the contracting cycle.
The magnitude, frequency and duration of natural disasters have multiple impacts on public finances. However, green public financial management (PFM) practices are still incipient in most countries in the region. of GDP for lower-middle-income countries and 0.9% of GDP for the low-income group.
The role of competition in publicprocurement regulation continues to be debated. Bringing together voices representing a wide range of views, this webinar will explore these issues and provide a space for reflective discussion on competition and publicprocurement. Free webinar: 22 March 2024 2pm UK / 3pm CET / 4pm EET.
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