Public Procurement
Abby Semple calls on her blog for more evidence-based research in public procurement, particularly regarding SME access to public contracts. I agree with her view in general and have made similar calls about social policies in public procurement. Having said that, there is some good research being done by legal
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While at Procurement Week a couple of weeks ago, Sally Collier confirmed that new guidance from the Government about the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 was on its way. She also promised that it would be short and to the point, in contrast with the mountains of guidance in times
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The particular procurement tennis match myself and Dr. Albert Sanchez-Graells have been playing since early February is taking a short intermission. Like Wimbledon this is due to the rain and/or lack of sunlight, not player injury. We will resume the match on Wednesday April 8th. So far we covered
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Regulation 29 - Competitive procedure with negotiation How many ways can we skin the negotiation cat? Well, according to Directive 2014/24/EU in three different ways: with competitive dialogue, negotiated procedure and competitive procedure with negotiation. The last one is a new introduction of Directive 2014/24/EU and
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Regulation 28 - Restricted procedure Regulation 28 transposes Article 28 of Directive 2014/24/EU on the restricted procedure. As with the open procedure we analysed yesterday, most novelties are related to shortening timescales. The general rule is that economic operators will have 30 days to submit their request for
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Regulation 27 - Open procedure Regulation 27 transposes Article 27 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This Regulations establishes some of the rules applicable to the open procedure, particularly the time limits which have been shortened considerably from Directive 2004/18/EC. The minimum time
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Regulation 26 - Choice of procedure Regulation 26 transposes Article 26 of Directive 2014/24/EU and brings us to a part of procurement law I am much more comfortable with: the procedures. The purpose of Regulation 26/Article 26 is to establish the situations where different procedures can be
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Regulation 25 - Conditions relating to the GPA and other international agreements Regulation 25 transposes Article 25 of Directive 2014/24/EU on the treatment of economic operators based in GPA signatory countries or similar agreements the EU is party to. Albert has already split enough hairs about the small(
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Regulation 24 - Conflicts of interest Regulation 24 transposes (well, implements) Article 24 of Directive 2014/24/EU in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Article 24 contains a traditional "directive" for Member States by establishing the objective (avoiding conflicts of interest) without prescribing the specific measures needed apart
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Regulation 23 - Nomenclatures Regulation 23 transposes Article 23 of the Directive 2014/24/EU, stating that any reference to nomenclatures within public procurement should be referred to the Common Procurement vocabulary (CPV) codes. CPV codes themselves are set by Regulation (EC) 2195/2002 and the Commission is free to
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Regulation 22 - Rules on communication Yesterday Albert and I discussed the first part of Regulation 22 (paras 1-12) and we will now be dealing with the second half of it (13-21). There was plenty to say about those first paragraphs so I recommend a reading through those before today&
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Regulation 22 - Rules applicable to communication (part 1) Regulation 22 transposes Article 22 of Directive 2014/24/EU on the rules that contracting authorities are to follow related to communication with economic operators. As mentioned in day 1 of this slow motion procurement tennis match with Albert, some of