Public Procurement
Great writeup about the excellent work being done on open contracting in Paraguay: “” I'm glad they talked with my good friend Juan Pane, the engine behind a good deal of the solutions deployed in Paraguay. I was very impressed by the quality of the work done in Paraguay
Public Procurement
As per yesterday's post, myself and Albert will be commenting on the Commission's initiative to improve public procurement. Albert volleyed first with an analysis on the Commission's proposed procurement mechanism for large infrastructure projects, known as "voluntary ex-ante assessment of large infrastructure projects.
Public Procurement
The Commission published yesterday a Communication on Making Public Procurement work in and For Europe. According to its press release, the 4 objectives of this initiative are: 1. Definition of priority areas for improvement 2. Voluntary ex-ante assessment of large infrastructure projects 3. Recommendation on professionalisation of public buyers 4.
Public Procurement
Stuff you cannot make up, by Gizmodo: “” By now my opinion about single source/direct award/request for quote(s) contracts should be well known to regular readers. This is yet another example of a decisions which may have been the correct one (or maybe not) but just by using
Public Procurement
1. Spanish Government kicks out 5 bus companies from public procurement for abnormally low tenders. (Spanish only) 2. Can technology solve the problem of extra costs in procurement? (Spanish only) I suspect that is not going to happen (at least fully) unless technology solves the problem of incomplete contracts...for
Public Procurement
This week, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggested a future Labour Government would bring PFI contracts in house. Details are sketchy (as always...) but the issue has been extensively covered in the media. Even the FT joined in the chorus with some pieces on the shortfalls of the scheme (here,
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
I have just co-authored a paper with Grith Skovgaard Olykke from Copenhagen Business School about how compliance requirements are creeping up in EU public procurement law, particularly in the field of sustainability. Here's the abstract: “ ” The paper was published on a special edition of the EPPPL co-edited by
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
The European Commission has just published its position paper regarding public procurement within the context of the Brexit negotiations. Here are the main take aways: 1. Current rules are to be followed until Brexit happens and procedures/framework agreements being conducted at that moment subject to the same rules as
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