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1. Ooops, we spent too much on our waste contract 2. We should have a Procurement Minister, says Labour 3. Local authorities "should not gold plate procurement says minister." Why not regulate the way they procure then, says Pedro. 4. Wales will refresh its procurement policy, said Jane
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Regulation 27 - Open procedure Regulation 27 transposes Article 27 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This Regulations establishes some of the rules applicable to the open procedure, particularly the time limits which have been shortened considerably from Directive 2004/18/EC. The minimum time limit
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Regulation 26 - Choice of procedure Regulation 26 transposes Article 26 of Directive 2014/24/EU and brings us to a part of procurement law I am much more comfortable with: the procedures. The purpose of Regulation 26/Article 26 is to establish the situations where different procedures can be used.
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Regulation 25 - Conditions relating to the GPA and other international agreements Regulation 25 transposes Article 25 of Directive 2014/24/EU on the treatment of economic operators based in GPA signatory countries or similar agreements the EU is party to. Albert has already split enough hairs about the small(ish)
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Regulation 24 - Conflicts of interest Regulation 24 transposes (well, implements) Article 24 of Directive 2014/24/EU in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Article 24 contains a traditional "directive" for Member States by establishing the objective (avoiding conflicts of interest) without prescribing the specific measures needed apart from
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Regulation 23 - Nomenclatures Regulation 23 transposes Article 23 of the Directive 2014/24/EU, stating that any reference to nomenclatures within public procurement should be referred to the Common Procurement vocabulary (CPV) codes. CPV codes themselves are set by Regulation (EC) 2195/2002 and the Commission is free to revise
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Regulation 22 - Rules on communication Yesterday Albert and I discussed the first part of Regulation 22 (paras 1-12) and we will now be dealing with the second half of it (13-21). There was plenty to say about those first paragraphs so I recommend a reading through those before
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Regulation 22 - Rules applicable to communication (part 1) Regulation 22 transposes Article 22 of Directive 2014/24/EU on the rules that contracting authorities are to follow related to communication with economic operators. As mentioned in day 1 of this slow motion procurement tennis match with Albert, some of these
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At Procurement Week this coming Thursday I will be chairing a procurement roundtable on the transposition of Directive 2014/24/EU into various Member States and which includes the following participants: • Nick Sullivan - Value Wales Procurement, Welsh Government, Wales, UK • Sally Collier, Crown Commercial Services, UK • Isabel Rosa - IMPIC, Portugal
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Regulation 21 - Confidentiality UPDATE: Scroll down for update Regulation 21 transposes Article 21 of Directive 2014/24/EU, establishing the obligation of contracting authorities to respect the confidentiality of any information conveyed by economic operators during tenders. This confidentiality rule is a clear exception to the principle of transparency and
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Regulation 19 - Economic operators Regulation 19 transposes Article 19 of Directive 2014/24/EU on rules applicable to economic operators. This Regulation and the original Article ensure that economic operators based in other Member States can participate in equal footing in public procurements in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and
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Regulation 20 - Reserved Contracts Regulation 20 transposes Article 20 from Directive 2014/24/EU on reserved contracts for sheltered workshops and economic operators aiming to integrate disadvantaged or disabled workers. The transposition is fairly straightforward fashion and once more, almost word for word with a minor difference. The very minor