Public Procurement
Regulation 53 - Electronic availability of procurement documents Regulation 53 establishes specific rules that need to be followed regarding the availability of procurement documents. As per this Regulation, the general rule is that procurement documents have to be made available electronically free of charge since the date of publication in
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Regulation 52 - Publication at national level Regulation 52 defines the rules that are to be followed by contracting authorities wishing to advertise notices (contract and PINs) at the national level. The main objective of this article is to ensure that while contracting authorities can publish these notices, they cannot
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Regulation 51 - Form and manner of sending notices for publication at EU level We can find on Regulation 51 how the various notices we covered over the last few days (and a few others) are to be sent for publication at EU level. This communication is mandatory for contract
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Regulation 50 - Contract Award Notices Regulation 50 establishes the obligation of contracting authorities to make public certain information related to the award of the contract. This rule is not new and has been around for ages but let's be honest: compliance across Europe has been lacklustre and
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Regulation 49 - Contract Notices Regulation 49 transposes Article 49 of Directive 2014/24/EU. Article 49 states that contract notices shall be used as means to call for competition with exception of the negotiated procedure or the use of the PIN notice. However, contrary to most cases so far,
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Regulation 48 - Prior Information Notices In Regulation 48 we can find the information related with the use of prior information (PIN) notices by contracting authorities. PIN notices allow contracting authorities to inform the market in advance of what it intends to buy in the future. They can have three
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Regulation 47 - Setting time limits Regulation 47 defines the rules on how time limits in public procurement may have to be extended from the minimum set in articles 27 to 31. As with Regulation 46 and lots, I believe that in general the obligation is to take into account
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Regulation 46 - Division of contracts into lots One of the biggest changes introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU is the new preference for division into lots. The (flawed) logic behind idea is to make procurement easier, more accessible for smaller suppliers by dividing contracts into smaller chunks. This logic
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Regulation 45 - Variants According to Regulation 45, contracting authorities may accept (or even require) economic operators to submit variant proposals. The possibility of using variants is not new and has been around in public procurement for a long time but has never been very popular or widespread. Regulation 45
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Regulation 44 - Test reports, certificates and other means of proof Regulation 44 defines what means of proof contracting authorities can require economic operators to provide as means to ensure their compliance with the technical specifications, award criteria or contract performance conditions. The general rule is that contracting authorities may
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Regulation 43 - Labels Regulation 43 defines a number of rules regarding the use of labels in public procurement, transposing Article 43 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Labels - at least with this level of detail - are a new addition to the European
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Regulation 42 - Technical Specifications Regulation 42 establishes the rules on how contracting are to (or may) define the technical specifications for a public procurement procedure. In essence, it transposes Article 42 of Directive 2014/24/EU and codifies some technical specifications case law from the last few years, particularly