Telles.eu

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. This means the public sector in Portugal will have less than 3 months to adapt to a fairly significant change in the way it carries out public procurement.

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Green Public Procurement Public Procurement Procurement Award Criteria 113

Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

When I published my first entry into the Portuguese train tender , I received an email tipping me off to a potential other issue with it. A couple of caveats here though: I'm a lot less comfortable discussing state aid than I am public procurement since my expertise is in the latter.

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Tender Bidder Manufacturing Award Criteria 100

Telles.eu

JUNE 14, 2023

It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. The procurement procedure was launched in December 2021 and adopted a MEAT approach for the award criteria. This is for two reasons.

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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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Collusion Public Procurement Transparency Tender 40

VWV

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

How has the evaluation criteria changed? Under the new regulations, evaluations will now be assessed on the basis of 'Most Advantageous Tender' instead of the 'Most Economically Advantageous Tender'. In practice, this is unlikely to have a significant impact on the award criteria.

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Supplier Procurement Tender Award Criteria 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

European Law: Public Procurement

MAY 11, 2012

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.

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Procurement Award Criteria Public Procurement Manufacturing 40