Public Procurement

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Pedro Telles

01 Nov 2017

1. ECJ rules on when a company owned by a contracting authority is governed by procurement rules (LitSpecMet UAB v Vilniaus lokomotyvu remonto debas UAB (C-567/15)). Albert's view is here.

2. Arriva pulls out from Welsh rail tender. As a former frequent user of Arriva train services all I can say is: good riddance.

3. Procurement is a mess, US losing edge in aviation and space.

4. Tiny company wins Puerto Rico emergency power contract, FBI investigates. Contract was not public but leaked nonetheless.

5. Growing government innovation labs: an insider's guide report launched.

Rethinking the procurement Directives: Making the case for abolishing the thresholds

Why do we have thresholds in public procurement? Why do they exist? This is an answer I tried to answer a couple of times in the past and was not particularly happy with the result (here and here). In short, we have them today because…we have always had them.

Public procurement in the Commission's Competitiveness Compass

The Commission published yesterday its Competitiveness Compass, providing some details of the political outlook for the Commission in the next year or so. With the upcoming revision of the substantive procurement Directives it is unsurprising that procurement was included in the document. The revision of the Directives gets called out

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"Suppose that governments are the only buyers of a certain product. Each one wishes to encourage production in its own jurisdiction, and therefore lets it be known that a firm’s bid will be seriously considered only if the product is supplied from a local plant. There will then

Rethinking the procurement Directives: Making the case for a Regulation

For the first entry into this series about rethinking the procurement Directives, I am starting with the choice of legislative instrument since it shapes all regulatory decisions contained within as well as (hopefully) their enforcement. With this proposed change I am not arguing that changing legislative instrument will magically solve

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Rethinking the procurement Directives: Making the case for abolishing the thresholds

Public procurement in the Commission's Competitiveness Compass

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Rethinking the procurement Directives: Making the case for a Regulation