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In the second week of our procurement tennis, Albert and I covered Regulations 6 to 10 of the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Whereas Regulation 6 was still related to thresholds, the other four entries of the week were dedicated to various exclusions from Part 2 of the Public Contracts
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Regulation 10 - specific exclusions for service contracts Regulation 10 provides us with a list of services that are excluded from Part 2 rules. Its content is straightforwardly similar to Article 10 of Directive 2014/24/EU. The list can charitably be described as a roll call of service sectors
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Regulation 9 - Public contracts awarded, and design contests organised, pursuant to international rules Regulation 9 transposes Article 9 of Directive 2014/24/EU on contracts involving international organisations or international rules. Once more, it follows the original closely, albeit with a couple of differences. The first one is that
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Regulation 8 - Specific exclusions in the field of electronic communications As Albert put it, Regulation 8 does not offer much scope for comment. In first instance, I agreed with him but when I started digging I found some interesting points to comment, making a mountain out of a mole
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Most of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 comes into force today. We will see if public sector and suppliers are ready for the changes introduced. I still think this is too fast a transposition and too short a vacatio legis... Regulation 7 - Utilities Regulation 7 excludes the application of
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Regulation 6 - Methods for calculating the estimated value of procurement We ended last week talking about the threshold values under the Directive 2014/24/EU. Eagle-eyed Albert found something I missed out on my post, namely the fact that the sterling value is actually set by the Commission "
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Albert served a nice ammorti for me to talk about EU thresholds and that is the focus of today's post. Thresholds is a topic I have a lot to say about and will do so in June at the Global Revolution VII in Nottingham. You can find the
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Regulation 4 - Mixed contracts Albert said on twitter he sweated the details today and he surely did. You can find his detailed comments on Regulation 4 here. I agree with the premise that mixed contracts are difficult (at least in part) and pose particular challenges to contracting authorities. By
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Regulation 3 - Subject Matter and Scope of Part 2 Regulation 3 brings us to Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. As the Regulation itself is short, today's commentary will focus first on a general view of this Part 2 and then a couple of quick
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Regulation 2 - Definitions Albert drew first blood today with his post here, so it's my turn to reply. Regulation 2 sets out the definitions for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015. By and large they follow Article 2 of Directive 2014/24/EU but with
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As promised yesterday, myself and Albert Sanchez-Graells are kicking off 122 days of running commentary on the new Public Contracts Regulation 2015 which transpose the Directive 2014/24/EU to (part of) the UK. Before diving into Regulation 1 I would like to make a couple of comments regarding the
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From next week onwards myself and Albert Sanchez-Graells from the How to Crack a Nut blog will try something different: we will be commenting on the new Public Contracts Regulation 2015, one section per working day, laying down a few key ideas that we think will be important to understand