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50 of April 18, 2016 (“Italian PublicProcurement Code”), the Decree defines limits and operating terms of “serious tax violations that have not been definitively sanctioned”, suitable to determine the exclusion of the economic operator from participation in publictenders.
This guest post by Dr Matthew Paris* and Dr Zack Esmail** complements some of the earlier guests posts on AI use in the public sector by focusing on the use in publicprocurement and, in particular, in the review of procurement decisions. Such an inflexible state of affairs may do well in the bulk of tendering processes.
This new eLearning resource complements existing guidance and forms part of a broader set of tools, including Climate Literacy, Circular Economy eLearning, and practical case studies, all available through the Sustainable Procurement Tools platform. Whats inside the eLearning? Email us at scottishprocurement@gov.scot.
A short video drawing out the key changes to the guidance is available here – Fair Work First – Update Video The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) provides free support in tendering to Scottish-based SMEs, supported businesses and third sector organisations through free training and events.
But these businesses rarely take part in publicprocurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.
As these common “green procurement” strategies are adopted by governments around the world, the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) model law on publicprocurement , last revised in 2011, could be updated to facilitate implementation. Contractor ¶ 60 (Thomson Reuters, 2024).
I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of publicprocurement. In short, contracts were being uploaded in full (as they should) but without personal data redacted (as definitely they shouldn't). It was a mess.
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One of the relatively recent developments in the post-Brexit review of UK publicprocurement law is the February 2021 proposal for the replacement of the current rules on the commissioning of healthcare services for the purposes of the English NHS (for background, you can watch here ), with a new provider selection regime (‘the proposal’).
Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the publicprocurement 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.
A first observation is that the controversy surrounding the definition of ‘high-risk’ in the EU AI Act immediately carries over to the model AI clauses and to the choice of ‘demanding’ vs light version. Whichever way this goes, this puts the public buyer in a position of rule-taker.
I continue exploring the use of publicprocurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.
As the field of Procurement is still evolving and scholars don’t seem to subscribe to universal definition of concepts such as what constitute the procurement cycle, this article does not make reference to any textbook or academic publication. It may also be called the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT).
First, in addressing some aspects of the definition of public works contracts that keep coming up in litigation in relation to relatively complex real estate transactions. This part of the dispute concerned the definition of ‘public works contracts’ under Directive 2014/24/EU (issue 1).
The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention.
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