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

Telles.eu

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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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. First, to protect those that could have presented themselves but did not due to the national manufacturing criterion.

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Looking into the State aid angle of the Portuguese train tender

Telles.eu

To do this properly, then the shed should be assessed via the award criteria. However, the maintenance shed is not subject to any specific award criteria, although it can be argued it is part of the price criterion.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

However, to assess the (abstract) potential of procurement as a regulatory tool, it is worth distinguishing between practical and legal challenges, and to focus on legal challenges that would be present at all levels of public buyer capability. However, both approaches present challenges. However, this is far from uncomplicated.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Introducing more sustainable procurement policies and processes presents an enormous opportunity for public authorities to not only contribute to reaching carbon emission reduction goals but also to drive sustainable societal and economic development. At present, the low adoption of green criteria is the main barrier.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

To contribute to this progress, the Bank has just published the study Fiscal Policy for Resilience and Decarbonization: Contributions to Policy Dialogue (in Spanish), which presents a series of potentially useful policy options for decision makers. The following is a summary of the main opportunities found in this new publication.

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

European Law: Public Procurement

24 In the present case, it is apparent from paragraphs 8 and 37 of the judgment under appeal that the [debriefing] letter […] contained the names of the tenderers selected as first contractor for each of the two lots of the call for tenders at issue.