Public Procurement

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Pedro Telles

May 30, 2017

1. A settlement under an existing public contract could result in the complete re-tendering of the contract

2. New Belgian public procurement directives implemented

3. Nationalists would implement transparent digital public procurement system in Malta. Well, it has to happen by 2018 anyway. Same party also wants to spend 25% of procurement spend with SMEs.

4. Indian Government creates "Make in India" local preference (20%) for public contracts. What can go wrong?

5. Macau considers new public procurement law to "reduce tendency of public departments to split up service contracts, thereby avoiding the need for tendering". Funny how the same problems/strategies can crop up anywhere in the world...

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On case C-652/22 Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret

The CJEU laid down early this week a fairly important judgment on third country access to procurement. On case C-652/22 Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret the Court concluded that economic operators from third countries neither party to the GPA nor with whom the EU has a deal are

All steam ahead with the revision of the procurement Directives

A couple of weeks ago a little birdie told me the Commission wanted to get the ball rolling on the revision of the procurement legal framework within the first 100 days of its term. Well, looks like they want to hit the ground running with the evaluation of the current

The Portuguese Audit Court finds systemic abuse of direct awards

Back in 2021 the then Portuguese government decided to make procurement more flexible as to ensure the Recovery and Resilience Facility money was spent quickly. In 2023 I warned about some of the risks that the reform had introduced here and here. Fast forward to 2024 and the Portuguese Audit

The Public Procurement Data Space is upon us

The Commission launched last week the PPDS, a service that is expected to aggregate data about public procurement in the EU. In essence it takes the data included in the eForms filled in by contracting authorities and makes it available to anyone. For example, it is possible to check for