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Regulation 39 - Procurement involving contracting authorities from other member States Regulation 39 brings a real innovation to the public procurement table: the possibility of undertaking joint procurement with contracting authorities based in other Member States. Regulation 39 transposes Article 39 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and
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Regulation 38 - Occasional joint procurement Regulation 38 provides contracting authorities with a simple set of rules to determine responsibility in case they decide to do some joint procurement. This Regulation transposes Article 38 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England and Wales. What Regulation 38 tries to achieve is
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Regulation 37 - Centralised purchasing activities and central purchasing bodies We can find on Regulation 37 the rules pertaining to centralised procurement, both procurement activities and bodies involved in such activities. Regulation 36 transposes Article 36 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You can find
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1. Are urban developments subject to procurement rules (or at least principles)? Good case report by Paul Henty. I remember vividly a discussion back in 2007/8 with my then Ph.D supervisor about how come development contracts are not considered relevant for the internal market and as such subject
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Regulation 36 - Electronic catalogues Is it just me who finds the expression "electronic catalogues" as having a vaguely 90s feel to it? Something along the lines of "multimedia" or "the world wide web"? It also brings to mind the idea of a La
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Regulation 35 - Electronic Auctions On Regulation 35 we can find the rules establishing how electronic auctions can be used within public procurement. These are very prescriptive rules, particularly when compared with the ones for framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems. Regulation 35 transposes Article 25 and overall it tries
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Regulation 34 - Dynamic purchasing systems Regulation 34 transposes to England and Wales the rules contained in Article 34 of Directive 2014/24/EU on dynamic purchasing systems. Dynamic purchasing systems constitute another type of two-stage "system" for awarding contracts the other being the framework agreements we discussed
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Regulation 33 - Framework agreements In Regulation 33 we can find the rules applicable to framework agreements. This Regulation transposes Article 33 of Directive 2014/24/EU. Regulation 33 also starts the section on "Techniques and Instruments for Electronic and Aggregated Procurement". How exciting! Framework agreements have become
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Regulation 32 - Negotiated procedure without prior publication In the previous legal regime the negotiated procedure was divided into procedures with or without publication. The old negotiated procedure with publication has been effectively upgraded to competitive procedure with negotiation we analysed in Regulation 29. In Regulation 32 we can find
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Regulation 31 - Innovation Partnership In Regulation 31 we can find the new innovation partnership "procedure" introduced in Article 31 of Directive 2014/24/EU. The purpose of this new "procedure" is to allow for the public and private sector to establish partnerships with the aim
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Regulation 30 - Competitive Dialogue After our short Easter break (yes, it was short for academic standards...) myself and Albert are back to our running commentary on the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Today we will be talking about Regulation 30 which transposes Article 30 of Directive 2014/24/EU on
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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