Public Procurement
This Monday I was cited again on Portuguese media about the illegality of the train tender for the new 117 trains that are being procured at the moment. This time, with three Portuguese colleagues. Two broadly agreed with me but a third argued that the tender is legal since i)
Public Procurement
National media is starting to pick the story up and I was interviewed yesterday for this piece (Portuguese only). Most of our conversation was about the topics I covered before in last week's blogpost but there is another extra bit of information that came to my attention in
Public Procurement
It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. In total, we're talking 117 new trains at a cost close to €800M. The procurement procedure was launched
Public Procurement
Jean Tirole published an article recently based on a keynote speech to the EU DG Comp conference from late last year on the implications of expanding the remit of public agencies such as central banks and competition authorities. In it, Tirole expresses his concern about the call for enlarging these
Public Procurement
Albert has already done a deep dive into the Commission's recent Communication on the Public Procurement Data Space, so for those of you that are yet to get acquainted with the Communication his blogpost is probably the best starting point. As for me, I will take a bird&
Public Procurement
“Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.” - Marc Andreesen Over the last decade I have become increasingly concerned with the move to bolt on ever more objectives to be pursued by public procurement, from the compliance requirements of exclusion grounds to
Public Procurement
As mentioned on yesterday's blogpost, one of the doubts I had on my mind was on the legality of the transposition of Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU into Portugal in its current draft of Article 370 of the Public Contracts Code. The Portuguese law makers have
Public Procurement
I spent some time over the last couple of weeks preparing my electronic procurement slides for some classes at the University of Belgrade and had a chance to look into eForms. My views about the lack of ambition of the current crop of electronic procurement related rules are not new,
Public Procurement
I was in Portugal for the last few days and the talk of town for the last week or so is yet another procurement case gone horribly wrong. Transtejo, the public company who runs the ferries in Lisbon acquired 10 electric ferries to renew its fleet with the Portuguese Audit
Legal
According to news reports, Netflix is preparing to impose a crackdown on the practice of what it calls 'password sharing', that is the use of the service by multiple people outside the same household. Looking at the reports it seems Netflix is going a lot further than simply
Public Procurement
The written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Procurement Bill is now available here. So far 17 submissions have been received, so let’s hope they are taken into account. Yours truly is available directly here and elaborates upon the points I made in
Public Procurement
Over the last few days, Portuguese media have been enthralled about a procurement case involving a stage for Pope Francis upcoming visit in August 2023. The country is hosting the World Youth Day with the main event being held at a space between the municipality of Lisbon and Loures. The