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Procurement Directives Revision

EU consultation submission - abolishing thresholds

My second entry into this series on my submission to the consultation on the revision of the procurement Directives is on thresholds and why we should abolish them: 7. The current system of financial thresholds is illogical as it puts a floor into the single market: contracts above certain values

Procurement Directives Revision

Rethinking the procurement Directives: Making the case for abolishing the thresholds

Why do we have thresholds in public procurement? Why do they exist? This is an answer I tried to answer a couple of times in the past and was not particularly happy with the result (here and here). In short, we have them today because…we have always had them.