Public Procurement
The Portuguese Competition Authority has just nailed a cartel operating in public procurement. The 5 Portuguese companies convicted were fined a total just over €800,000. They were found guilty of price-fixing tenders in a number of procurement procedures launched by the Parque Escolar Secondary School Modernisation Programme in
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Regulation 110 - Publication of contract opportunities on Contracts Finder This Regulation establishes the obligation for contracting authorities to publish contract award opportunities on Contracts Finder, in addition to any other advertising means they may find appropriate. If the contracting authority does indeed use any other advertising means, the required information
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1. Open Contracting Data Standard project. Just come across this the other day and I think it is a great idea, although on the long run my vote is for a blockchain type of solution. 2. Draft new public procurement law in Spain is under fire (Spanish only). The draft
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Regulation 109 - Scope of Chapter 8 This Regulation defines the scope of Chapter 8 which applies to contracts with a value below the thresholds of Regulation 5. This chapter is particularly important as it constitutes the first time contracts below-thresholds are subject to regulations. As such, the rules contained
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Regulation 108 - Publication of information on Contracts Finder about contracts awarded This Regulation establishes the obligation for contracting authorities to publish on Contracts Finder certain information about contract awards. This obligations kicks in once the contract award notice has been sent to the EU Publications Office or a contract has
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1. Smart contracts are coming to Wall Street, courtesy of the block chain. This is the first concrete example I have seen of the blockchain being used as a contract ledger. I stand by earlier comments that this technology would be great in procurement. 2. European Commission makes procurement data
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One of my former student's from Bangor pinged me on Facebook yesterday, inquiring how many candidates were needed for a innovation partnership. He pointed out that in my commentary to Regulation 31 I argued that only a single supplier is needed for the procedure to run from start
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Regulation 107 - Qualitative selection Regulation 107 creates the obligation in contracting authorities of having "regard" for any guidance on qualitative selection produced by the Minister for the Cabinet Office. It is noteworthy to point out that Regulation 107 states contracting authorities shall regard the guidance, but does not
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It came to my attention by @JackOfKent on twitter yesterday that the London Criminal Courts Solicitor's Association (LCCSA) is collating information from various firms which may have put in tenders for the Legal Aid Crime Tender 2015 (put out by the Legal Aid Agency) and may be willing
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Regulation 106 - Publication of information on Contracts Finder where contract notices are used We can find in this Regulation the rules applicable to the publication of information on the national portal Contracts Finder. According to paragraph 1, after a contract notice is sent to publication to the EU Publications Office,
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1. A new PPP interview is up, this time with Piotr Bogdanowicz from Warsaw University. As with the previous episode we discussed at length the issues surrounding cross-border interest in contracts not covered by the Directives. Previous episodes can be found here and also on iTunes. 2. The Welsh
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Regulation 105 - Scope of Chapter 7 This Regulation establishes the scope of Chapter 7 (Regulations 105 - 108). These Regulations establish some assorted rules about publication of contract and award notices on Contracts Finder and how to deal with qualitative selection for contracts that are covered by Part 2 (ie, contracts