Public Procurement

Public Contracts Regulations Tennis Intermission

Pedro Telles

30 Mar 2015

The particular procurement tennis match myself and Dr. Albert Sanchez-Graells have been playing since early February is taking a short intermission. Like Wimbledon this is due to the rain and/or lack of sunlight, not player injury. We will resume the match on Wednesday April 8th.

So far we covered 29 Regulations of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and have 93 more to go, with the best yet to come. I think we will be able to finish the game off by September-ish, preferably before the start of the new academic year.

In the meanwhile I will be covering a few other procurement topics I have wanted to focus on.

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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

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

All steam ahead with the revision of the procurement Directives

The Portuguese Audit Court finds systemic abuse of direct awards

The Public Procurement Data Space is upon us