This fourth entry is focused on the number of public procurement procedures currently included in the procurement toolbox and how they should be reduced to three: open, competitive with negotiation and a new procedure for services 22. At the moment, a contracting authority has access to open, restricted, competitive dialogue,
The third entry into the series on my response to the procurement Directives revision consultation is on electronic procurement and how and why it needs to be redesigned 15. The current electronic procurement framework requires fundamental reform because it merely digitises analogue processes rather than reimagining procurement for the digital
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
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Having submitted my response to the Commission's EU public procurement consultation last week after revising the ideas I discussed previously in the blog and on Linkedin, I decided to upload it section by section here to the blog. Today's entry is on the choice of legislative
The Procurement Act came into force a couple of days ago, and it is already being marshalled to deliver on something it probably should not. As horrible as the Greenfell Tower fire was, I don't see how the Procurement Act debarment process can be applied in the terms
Under Directive 2014/24/EU contracting authorities have a suite of procurement procedures to choose from: open and restricted that can be used without any restrictions, competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation and innovation partnership which require some pre-conditions to be met and the negotiated procedure which is exceptional in
The UK government has finally published the new National Public Procurement Statement which will come into force in conjunction with the Procurement Act 2023 later this month. I am yet to dive into it properly, but it is not a million miles from what I had expected it to be.
"The case for competitive government purchasing is that the long-term impact on the price and quality of goods and services and the price, quality, and process of public works will provide direct benefits to public authorities. But, for each individual public authority, these benefits tend to be opaque, while
Despite ambitious goals back in 2014 and years of development since, the current legal framework has failed to deliver the transformational benefits originally envisioned for electronic procurement. In fact, it has actually become a barrier to meaningful digital innovation in public procurement processes. The Commission's recent initiatives in
"As discussed in chapter 8, developments since the 2000 EU summit in Nice demonstrate a growing desire on the part of powerful member states (France and Germany) to consider specific social objectives more fully in the application of competition policy—for example, by developing policies to bolster individual economic
One of the characteristics that has always puzzled me about public procurement as a process is its hijack to achieve objectives that have nothing do with the act of buying. It simply an easy, convenient and 'free' way to enforce compliance with objectives external to the procurement process.