Public Procurement
In 'honour’ of the Procurement Bill being laid before Parliament in the UK, me and Albert are finally making available on SSRN the paper we authored for the European Law Review back in 2019 about the UK’ transition from an EU-based procurement legal system to one of its own.
Public Procurement
I have spent the last 8 years or so arguing that 'community benefits' are nothing but a covert operation for what is protectionism of a more local nature and a gateway drug for ever more protectionism in a grander scale. What some contracting authorities (and countries as well,
Public Procurement
Boris Johnson is once again talking about procurement: “ ” The obvious figure Johnson is missing here is that 97% or so of procurement is spent with British companies, so the upside of the measure is pretty much non-existent. However, any move to tilt the playing field in favour of British companies
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The GPA members and the UK have reached an agreement allowing for the country to acceed to the Agreement if and when it leaves the European Union. This agreement ensures a continuity of the international procurement legal regime for UK-based undertakings and those based on the GPA members. Back in
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Last week, Bloomberg ran an article claiming the USA and two other countries were blocking the UKs accession to the GPA agreement. Yesterday, it doubled down on the story stating New Zealand and Moldova as the two other members blocking the UK. and provided more information about why Moldova is
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The UK Government published recently a guidance note on the potential impact for public contracts access in case there is no deal with the EU before March 29 2019. There is not really much actionable information and perhaps calling it “guidance” is a slight misnomer as the document is more
Public Procurement
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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Just saying.
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This time from Lorand Bartels (Cambridge University), who argues that the UK will succeed to the EU on the Government Procurement Agreement: “ ” Although I am not entirely persuaded by the arguments (at least not yet) there is at least a reasonable case to be made for the UK to stay
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Some food for thought raised by Jean Heilman Grier on the impact Brexit will have on UK's participation on the GPA: The UK’s negotiations to rejoin the GPA would involve the procurement that it would cover and the conformity of its laws with the GPA. As for
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I have just uploaded to my SSRN repository a new paper which will be published later this year in the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL). The paper is focused on the relationship between the EU procurement thresholds and the GPA, arguing that the current threshold levels
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Regulation 90 - Duty owed to economic operators from certain other states This Regulation extends the duty created in Regulation 89 to economic operators based in other countries. This extension is provided for economic operators from countries signatory to the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and other countries where a bilateral