Public Procurement
Like clockwork every two years, the Commission has published the new financial thresholds which will be in force for 2020 and 2021. For the most part they are simply slightly revised values based on the changing of value of the euro in relation the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights, with
Public Procurement
Here's two papers that have just arrived on my pile of stuff to read and appear quite interesting and important: 1. Palguta, Ján and Filip Pertold. 2017. "Manipulation of Procurement Contracts: Evidence from the Introduction of Discretionary Thresholds." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(2): 293-315.
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1. Government of Western Australia shows Minimum Viable Product version of its new online procurement portal. Great to see a Government taking up on cheaper, more agile ways of developing services instead of building the whole widget without external feedback. Well done. 2. Is raising the micro-purchase threshold from $3,
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded to my SSRN repository a new paper which will be published later this year in the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL). The paper is focused on the relationship between the EU procurement thresholds and the GPA, arguing that the current threshold levels
Public Procurement
1. Today is the last day for registrations for the Public Procurement Early Career Researcher Conference which will be held this Friday at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. Attendance is free. 2. UK government’s data chief wants ‘data-as-a-service’ in Whitehall. 3. Californian hospitals suffer cyberattack. I
Public Procurement
I forgot to cover this a few weeks ago, but we have new thresholds in place since January 1st: Works: €5,225,000 (was €5,186,000) Central services and supplies: €135,000 (was €134,000) Sub-central services and supplies: €209,000 (was €207,000) Utilities and defence: €418,00
Public Procurement
The Commission put out last week its strategy for a Deeper and Fairer Internal Market. Part of it is dedicated to public procurement and Albert commented on it here, pointing out the collusion risks of contract registers (which I do not subscribe entirely) and the perennial language problems in cross-border
Public Procurement
A version of the presentation I delivered yesterday about thresholds on Global Revolution VII is up on the presentation's tab. For those of you in attendance yesterday, I used Perspective on the iPad to plot the graphics. Took me (and my wife) an eternity to format the spreadsheet
Public Procurement
This is just a taster of what I will be talking about this afternoon at Global Revolution VII
Public Procurement
Regulation 13 - Contracts subsidised by contracting authorities Regulation 13 takes us out of Sub-Section 3 (exclusions) and into Sub-Section 4 (specific situations) of Part 2. This Regulation covers contracts that are subsidised by contracting authorities, transposing Article 13 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Public Procurement
Regulation 6 - Methods for calculating the estimated value of procurement We ended last week talking about the threshold values under the Directive 2014/24/EU. Eagle-eyed Albert found something I missed out on my post, namely the fact that the sterling value is actually set by the Commission "
Public Procurement
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