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Looking into the State aid angle of the Portuguese train tender

Telles.eu

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. Let's start with what is in the tender documentation, shall we? Tender documentation The object of the contract is to purchase 117 sets and a maintenance shed for them.

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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. In total, we're talking 117 new trains at a cost close to €800M. This is for two reasons.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

A star indicates requirements included in the EU’s green criteria for furniture. EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The Government is now moving beyond measuring outputs like the use of green criteria to focus on the outcomes from better procurement, such as reducing Lithuania’s carbon footprint, working with OCP and Kaunas Technology University. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria.