Public Procurement
This happened last week but completely forgot to mention it here. My most recent paper about the use of direct awards (negotiated procedure without notice) in Portugal is out in the newest number of the e-Publica journal. Here's the abstract: The Portuguese Revised Public Contracts Code misses an
Public Procurement
1. Colombia could use some more competition in public procurement (Spanish only). Funny how Colombia understands that having one or only two bidders on each tender is a competition risk, whereas Portugal doesn't. 2. UK Government provides £20 million for govtech challenges. As I said before, probably a
Public Procurement
One of Portugal's top newspapers investigated the direct award of a €5.179.873,44 public works project by the Lisbon City Council to Teixeira Duarte, one of the largest construction companies in the country. The piece is an example of how direct award (negotiated procedure without competition
Public Procurement
1. Some local councils in Portugal take up to 2,000 days to pay their suppliers (Portuguese only). 2. Navarra adopts new (regional) public procurement law (Spanish only). 3. The Commission gets what the Commission measures. 4. Which buyers award contracts to Small Businesses? 5. CJEU backs automatic exclusion of
Public Procurement
1. US General Services Administration prototypes blockchain. 2. PFI is bankrupting Britain. 3. Portuguese CPB officials under fire for accepting trips paid by economic operator (Portuguese only). 4. Critics see hole in Royal Navy’s new shipbuilding strategy. 5. Abnormally low tenders raise (legal) questions in Portugal (Portuguese only).
Public Procurement
Portugal has just transposed the Procurement Directives (well, new law is not in force yet). The full blown 476 article law (Decree-Law 111-B/2017) revising the Public Contracts Code is available here in Portuguese only. Needless to say it goes well beyond the requirements for transposition, maintaining instead the model
EU Commission
1. European Commission publishes country specific recommendations (with comments on procurement for at least a few Member States). 2. Lisbon wants to create positive discriminations in public procurement for undertakings not employing people on short term contracts (Portuguese only). Illegal in my view. 3. Spain will end non-transparent award procedures
Links
1. Cristina Kirchner accused of corruption in Argentina. 2. Large Spanish construction companies rail against price heavy and price only projects (Spanish only). 3. Putting innovation at the heart of public procurement. A recipe for complexity. 4. Corruption charges in Portugal grow significantly between 2014 and 2016 (Portuguese only). Finger
Public Procurement
Gatewit, the e-procurement platform with the highest market share in Portugal has had its operational license revoked by the Regulator IMPIC. A significant number of little birdies in the country had told me over the last few months that this was the most likely outcome for the hardball business practices
Public Procurement
My dear colleagues from the Instituto de Ciencias Juridicas e Politicas from the University of Lisbon decided to set up a multiauthor blog in public procurement: contratospublicos.net. It is in Portuguese only but the content already there is excellent and with a good deal of discussion in the comments.
Public Procurement
Prof. Sue Arrowsmith put out a whitepaper on the implications of Brexit for the UK's procurement rules. Albert has already provided a general comment on some important issues raised by the paper, such as the feasibility of a completely new procurement legal regime and what could be the
Public Procurement
The Portuguese Government has just published a first public draft of the Revised Public Contracts Code (PCC) which aims to transpose Directives 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU. The draft is available here (Portuguese only) and a public consultation open until September 23rd. The PCC revision