Telles.eu

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Yesterday I looked into the main text of the draft Council of Ministers Resolution introducing mandatory green public procurement in Portugal. It is very detailed and prescriptive to and will definitely curtail the discretion of contracting authorities to organise their procurement procedures and contractual arrangements.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. At the very least this particular draft resolution contains instructions binding to government departments as well as the wider public administration such as publicly owned companies for example.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

South Korea has been a pioneer of green public procurement (GPP) since 2005 , when the Environment Ministry enacted legislation mandating government agencies to buy “green products” whenever possible. These categories were established in a consultation process with relevant stakeholders and revised seven times.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For electric vehicles we refer to energy, not fuel consumption and for hydrogen ones I simply do not know. It seems then that for the Portuguese Government vehicle efficiency only matters for internal combustion and not for all types of vehicles. This is, self-evidently, discriminatory and as thus, illegal. Is it simply tailpipe? Energy source?

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I will be doing the post on vehicles sometime later this week Contract type 15 - food products, catering and automated vending For food procurement, the text of the Resolution and contract type 15 include a reference to the need to have 'short supply chains'. So what is a 'short supply chain'? Is it of the contract value? The volume?

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I was invited to provide an entry on ‘public procurement’ for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law co-edited by Andrea Biondi and Oana Stefan. things going on in procurement. Public Procurement I. Below is my draft entry with perhaps an eclectic choice of content.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 6, 2024

Thanks to a small grant from Schmidt Futures , we had the opportunity to experiment with applying artificial intelligence technologies to green public procurement. The goal is to increase the understanding of AI in public procurement – by discussing the key decisions we had to make about our approach.

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