Council of the European Union
Two years ago, in June 2022 the Council of the European Union published a set of conclusions on sustainable procurement which were an evolution of a 2020 set of conclusions suggesting the introduction of criteria or targets for sustainable procurement. It would seem that the Council was behind the idea
Public Procurement
As promised, you can find the (edited) slide deck for my workshop on sustainability in public procurement here. They have been edited to make a bit more sense by themselves and a I also took out a couple of slides pertaining to a work-in-progress from colleagues at CBS. It went
Public Procurement
This coming Thursday I will be doing a workshop at the Lisbon Environmental Law cluster from the University of Lisbon. It will be a homecoming of sorts for me as it is the first time I will be delivering a session in person at my alma mater exactly 20 years
Public Procurement
After parts I, II and III we finally reach part IV on the purchase or leasing of vehicles (contract type - 5) For these, the Annex establishes four different award criteria and two contract performance clauses/technical specifications, with issues to be found on both, mostly due to the non-technology
Public Procurement
After the first two entries (here and here) of a more general nature, this one will be focused on contract specific critiques, in particular food procurement (contract types 9 and 15). I will be doing the post on vehicles sometime later this week Contract type 15 - food products, catering
Public Procurement
Yesterday I looked into the main text of the draft Council of Ministers Resolution introducing mandatory green public procurement in Portugal. I had assumed that looking into it would be a two part affair. Turns out it will be a four part one instead since I keep finding stuff worth
Public Procurement
The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. It appears to be looking to do so no not with a change to the Public Contracts Code which is supposed to contain the bulk of the rules applicable to public procurement in the