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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement

Telles.eu

The Resolution is composed of a main part with the provisions on eco criteria that are to be applied from January 1st and a detailed Annex with the specific award criteria and contract performance clauses/technical specifications that are to be adopted for certain types of contracts.

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

Contract Award Criteria The contract award criteria are the factors that decide which bid wins. It considers evaluation criteria like quality, sustainability, innovation and overall value to select the best supplier. This is often used for complex contracts where standard solutions don’t help.

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

How to Crack a Nut

While the legal tests to access this negotiated procedure are in principle strict, the public buyer can have the wrong incentives to push through while at the same time controlling some of the safeguarding mechanisms (eg transparency of the award, or level of detail in the relevant disclosure). However, this is far from uncomplicated.

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Procurement, State Aid, and the Brexit Transition - What Happens Now?

VWV

The current procurement thresholds will remain in force. As from 1 January 2021 the guidance on evaluating social value and the recommendation, at least for central government and non-department public bodies, to include a weighting of 10% for social value award criteria also comes into force.

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Striving for data excellence: How the Netherlands’ TenderNed is enabling procurement insights for government and public users

Open Contracting Partnership

All Dutch authorities must publish their above-the-threshold tenders via the TenderNed platform , so businesses can access all public data and documents from a single webpage. Publication of below-the-threshold tenders is voluntary.

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