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Albert served a nice ammorti for me to talk about EU thresholds and that is the focus of today's post. Thresholds is a topic I have a lot to say about and will do so in June at the Global Revolution VII in Nottingham. You can find the
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Regulation 4 - Mixed contracts Albert said on twitter he sweated the details today and he surely did. You can find his detailed comments on Regulation 4 here. I agree with the premise that mixed contracts are difficult (at least in part) and pose particular challenges to contracting authorities. By
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Regulation 3 - Subject Matter and Scope of Part 2 Regulation 3 brings us to Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. As the Regulation itself is short, today's commentary will focus first on a general view of this Part 2 and then a couple of quick
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Regulation 2 - Definitions Albert drew first blood today with his post here, so it's my turn to reply. Regulation 2 sets out the definitions for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015. By and large they follow Article 2 of Directive 2014/24/EU but with
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The full programme for Procurement Week 2015 is now up. As in previous years, attendance is free (as in beer) but places are disappearing fast with 2/3 already gone. If you are interested in the new Public Procurement Directives or what changes the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 will bring,
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As promised yesterday, myself and Albert Sanchez-Graells are kicking off 122 days of running commentary on the new Public Contracts Regulation 2015 which transpose the Directive 2014/24/EU to (part of) the UK. Before diving into Regulation 1 I would like to make a couple of comments regarding the
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From next week onwards myself and Albert Sanchez-Graells from the How to Crack a Nut blog will try something different: we will be commenting on the new Public Contracts Regulation 2015, one section per working day, laying down a few key ideas that we think will be important to understand
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- Final Public Contracts Regulation 2015 As expected, Government rushed the transposition before the General Election. As expected as well, most of the transposition is a copy + paste affair of Directive 2004/14. Remember that these regulations do not cover Scotland as public procurement is a devolved power there. EDIT:
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As promised last week, the Conference on Framework Agreements organised by my good friend Dr. Marta Andrecka at the University of Aarhus, produced some interesting food for thought. Personally, I am very much a fan of small conferences with a limited number delegates (20-40) talking about a specific topic. Nothing
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I am talking next week about framework agreements at a Conference hosted by Aarhus University, so perhaps some random musings about my presentation are in order. 1. UK* regulation of framework agreements is barebones Both the outgoing Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and the incoming Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Draft) simply
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Then you should see this week's BBC Panorama about Tesco's procurement practices. Only available in the UK unfortunately. I was aware that supermarkets made good money from "commercial deals" (ie, flogging suppliers) but was unaware of the size of the problem. It is big.