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22 Similarly, the contracting authority is not under an obligation to provide an unsuccessful tenderer, upon written request from it, with a full copy of the evaluation report (see order of 20 September 2011 in Case C‑561/10 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission, paragraph 25).
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especially bearing in mind that the outcome of the negotiations could be strongly pro-supplier, strongly pro-customer, or balanced (and something in between those). and which in a procurement context would have been dealt with pre-contract, eg in the context of technical specifications and/or tender evaluation).
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It is difficult enough to have access to information on ‘live’ tender procedures. Backward-looking data as a necessary evidence base It is notorious that the public sector’s management of procurement-related information is lacking. Available on SSRN: [link].
We balanced these considerations for and against applying a longer time-frame by selecting one year before and after the transparency intervention which limits the incidence of confounding factors while also taking care of seasonality biases. the same information is reported in very many different and changing formats).
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