How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This Op-Ed is based on the assumption that public procurement law is not and cannot be insulated from these changes – veritable seismic shifts – and from recent policy and normative actions taken by EU institutions. The Council also called ‘for resuming discussions on the EU’s international procurement instrument’ (see here ).

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Magnus Legal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How do you as an international supplier, access the competitions governed by the strict national rules in Norway?

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Public procurement is one of the key ways of corruptly channelling money out of the state, not least because it is one of the few areas of public spending in which there is significant discretion. That means that, in a well-functioning state, there will be many bodies with an interest in controlling and overseeing procurement.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

The result– the market has turned into almost a monopoly where there is one dominant provider and the threshold for other vendors is so high that entry is incredibly difficult. In light of existing rules, vendors can deter competition by driving prices down in competitive tenders.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. in 2020 to 59.7%

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Steps To Identify The Right Public Sector Frameworks Identifying the right public sector frameworks can be a game-changer for suppliers securing contracts. These critical steps can streamline the tender process, and position your business for success in the public sector market.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. 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.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As these common “green procurement” strategies are adopted by governments around the world, the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) model law on public procurement , last revised in 2011, could be updated to facilitate implementation. Contractor ¶ 60 (Thomson Reuters, 2024).

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement 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.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

By 2022, the government has aimed for 33% of all procurement to be done with SMEs, so there’s a long way to go. These figures aren’t helped by the fact that the proportion of public sector contracts awarded without a competitive tender is rising ( 15 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent in 2017 and then 23 per cent in 2018 ).

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Enhancing the transparency of government in general and of public procurement processes in particular has been increasingly on the agenda of governments, civil societies and businesses as evidenced by initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership which has seen 70 OGP members making 189 open contracting commitments by March 2019 [1].

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

Critical and urgent procurements, together with other procurements which may not have started as urgent, have become priorities, due to the volume of additional work created by the pandemic. This is likely to be harder for non-NHS contracting authorities to demonstrate unless the nature of the contract is for public health.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This part of the dispute concerned the definition of ‘public works contracts’ under Directive 2014/24/EU (issue 1). By the same token, not all forms of de-risking of infrastructure projects are necessarily covered by public procurement law.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The presentation and all questions and answers are posted as an addendum in keeping with the public procurement tenets of open, fair and transparent. Construction tenders may include a mandatory site visit where attendance is required in order to bid. Step 4 Evaluation Once the procurement closes bids are evaluated.

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Bonfire

MARCH 29, 2022

At Bonfire, we get to work with hundreds of public procurement professionals every day. On March 15, we brought together procurement professionals from crown corporations across Canada for a virtual roundtable discussion. What Canadian-specific procurement resources do you use? Provincial and federal government resources.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of public procurement. As for the 2017 transposition I do not have much to say, but I did say a lot about what was happening below-thresholds. But fashionably late it was nonetheless. I wrote enough about it here , here and here.

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