Public Procurement
While the UK comes to grips now with the lack of PPE, in Ireland the situation is somewhat different and the reason for that is this: “ ” Sometime in March, Ireland struck a huge deal with China for 13x the usual annual spend on PPE. I do not know the exact
COVID-19
The Office of Government Procurement in Ireland (hat tip to Ross!) has published an instruction note on how to directly award contracts in situations of extreme urgency, absence of competition/protection of exclusive rights, using the standard procedure with accelerated timescales, light touch regime or extending/modifying a contract during
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1. Ireland transposes Directive 2014/24/EU. According to my calculations we now have 9 out of 28 Member States which have transposed the Directive. Croatia may be the next one. 2. Austria is yet to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU. And so is Latvia. 3. A call for more
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1. EU rules save British tax payer money, politicians and newspapers complain. Seriously, go and read the link. The Telegraph is particularly disingenuous by slamming EU rules for "lowest price criteria" in the lead, before quoting someone in the process with this: “The award criteria looked at the
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1. "Don't give contracts or grants to companies without women in the boardroom" Once more, tying to use public procurement to solve problems not directly connected with it. 2. "Fence at border with Turkey to be built without public procurement" Who needs public procurement