Public Procurement
Building upon two week's ago decision to award the first post-Brexit UK passports to an Franco-Dutch (Dutch-French?) company, it seems De La Rue is initiating proceedings to get the award decision reviewed. This is yet another timely reminder EU law is still applicable in the UK since the
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It seems Gemalto, a French company has won the contract to produce the UK passports post-Brexit. FT has the scoop: "Gemalto, a security company based in Paris, is expected to win a tender process ahead of the UK’s De La Rue, one person briefed on the decision said.
Public Procurement
The Commission published on March 19th a revised Draft Agreement on the UK's withdrawal from the EU, conveniently colour coded green, yellow and white to denote different levels of agreement between the parties. Green means the text has been agreed but is still subject to technical legal revision,
Public Procurement
The UK Government has just published a technical note detailing its approach in phase 2 to a number of different areas, including ongoing public procurement procedures. The Government disputes the EU's assumption that Union law should be applicable to ongoing procedures and states instead that "in practical
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The Commission has just published today a Draft Withdrawal Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community. The Draft Withdrawal Agreement sets out the arrangements for the UK's withdrawal from the Union
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I have uploaded to SSRN a new working paper entitled "Protection from Exclusion: A Reassessment of Union Citizenship in the Time of Brexit" co-authored with Volker Roeben, Keith Bush, Petra Minnerop and Jukka Snell. Here's the abstract: "The received wisdom on Union Citizenship is statist:
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So it seems, although the full description is "Senior Policy Adviser - Brexit - International Agreements." Although I have the feeling this is one of those positions where you will either end up having a ton of interesting work or none at all depending on how the Brexit
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Albert and I have just published a new paper on the impact of Brexit in the regulation of public procurement in the UK. The paper is called 'Examining Brexit Through the GPA’s Lens: What Next for UK Public Procurement Reform?' (2017) 47(1) Public Contract Law Journal
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So claims Greepeace on its Unearthed blog. The punchline for me is this tidbit: "One senior advisor at Dexeu was working as a procurement officer for Enfield Council as recently as March 2016." (Local) Procurement officer =/= (International) trade negotiator. Maybe this is why the Government Legal Department is
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The European Commission has just published its position paper regarding public procurement within the context of the Brexit negotiations. Here are the main take aways: 1. Current rules are to be followed until Brexit happens and procedures/framework agreements being conducted at that moment subject to the same rules as
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1. European Parliament publishes report on Brexit impact in public procurement. 2. Locked in by choice: How European governments are handling their Microsoft addiction. 3. Gonna Make You A (Contract) Offer You Can’t Refuse – Grayling Persuades Mace To Back Off HS2 Challenge. 4. Government Of South Australia Shares Guidance
Public Procurement
One of the topics for discussion in last week's Procurement Week was simplification of public procurement and how Brexit could finally enable the simplification of the legal framework in the UK. Simplification, like flexibility, is on the eye of the beholder. The problem with simplification is that it