Public Procurement
“ ” — https://promarket.org/antitrust-answer-rising-wealth-inequality/ Interesting discussion about the effects (or not) of competition law enforcement and inequality and how procurement in the US may function as redistribution mechanism. The problem with Crane's argument I suspect is that larger companies generate more profit but can pay a lower effective
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I have a soft spot for technology and related topics. Over the last couple of years, most of my attention has been on the increasing speed at which new technologies enter the market and go on to establish a dominant position. This is not my idea and people way smarter
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1. Israel's Competition Authority finds a cartel operating in Auschwitz tour operators. It seems that the government tendered a contract to take Israeli kids on tours to Auschwitz to 5-6 companies. I assume Israel set up something akin to a framework agreement as each individual school was supposed
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1. Lord Carter's report on NHS procurement is out. Apparently it recommends a deep cleaning. Or a good scrubbing. 2. 18F tests GitHub for reverse auctions for small pieces of coding work. Contracts start at $3499 and contractors bid down the price and are only paid if they
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Over the weekend Albert published an awesome post on the competition-related downsides of public contract registers. By and large I stand on the other side of the argument, but genuinely welcome my views (and any orthodoxy) to be challenged. Contrary to some colleagues or proponents of specific policies (social policies
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It came to my attention by @JackOfKent on twitter yesterday that the London Criminal Courts Solicitor's Association (LCCSA) is collating information from various firms which may have put in tenders for the Legal Aid Crime Tender 2015 (put out by the Legal Aid Agency) and may be willing
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Transparency International put out a detailed report about the experience in Slovakia of mandatory advertising of contract award information. I am a huge fan of contract award transparency and am always on the lookout for things like this report which is full of interesting findings. Apparently Slovakian contracting authorities have
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Regulation 55 - Informing candidates and tenderers Regulation 55 defines the timings and kind of information tenderers are entitled to receive at the end of their participation in a procurement procedure, particularly in case they were unsuccessful. The obligations for the contracting authority cover both the decision to conclude or
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Regulation 46 - Division of contracts into lots One of the biggest changes introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU is the new preference for division into lots. The (flawed) logic behind idea is to make procurement easier, more accessible for smaller suppliers by dividing contracts into smaller chunks. This logic
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Regulation 41 - Prior involvement of candidates or tenderers Can a prospective tenderer be involved in drafting the tender documents before a procedure is launched? According to Regulation 41, yes it can. The main rule of Regulation 41 allows for such participation, but digging deeper into the Regulation allows us
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Regulation 33 - Framework agreements In Regulation 33 we can find the rules applicable to framework agreements. This Regulation transposes Article 33 of Directive 2014/24/EU. Regulation 33 also starts the section on "Techniques and Instruments for Electronic and Aggregated Procurement". How exciting! Framework agreements have become
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Regulation 30 - Competitive Dialogue After our short Easter break (yes, it was short for academic standards...) myself and Albert are back to our running commentary on the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Today we will be talking about Regulation 30 which transposes Article 30 of Directive 2014/24/EU on