Public Procurement
The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. It appears to be looking to do so no not with a change to the Public Contracts Code which is supposed to contain the bulk of the rules applicable to public procurement in the
Public Procurement
On my previous post about *that* train tender in Portugal, I argued that it was quite possible the contract involved a State Aid angle but stopped short of making a more definitive or certain claim. This was due to the issue of the economic advantage gained by the preferred bidder
Public Procurement
The European Commission has just published a study on the use of the innovation partnership with TED data for the 2016-2022 period and frankly the data shows in a bit more detail what I already knew from preparing a couple of recent conference presentations. In that period 172 innovation partnership
Public Procurement
When I published my first entry into the Portuguese train tender, I received an email tipping me off to a potential other issue with it. The email argued that the maintenance shed which is part of the contract object would be used for the manufacturing of the trains and as
Public Procurement
Next week I will be in Rome taking part on the 8th IMPPM Global Procurement Conference (July 6th and 7th) where on Thursday I will be sharing a session with Kirsi-Maria Halonen on competitive dialogue. These days I am more or less out of the traditional conference circuit and refrain
Public Procurement
This Monday I was cited again on Portuguese media about the illegality of the train tender for the new 117 trains that are being procured at the moment. This time, with three Portuguese colleagues. Two broadly agreed with me but a third argued that the tender is legal since i)
Public Procurement
National media is starting to pick the story up and I was interviewed yesterday for this piece (Portuguese only). Most of our conversation was about the topics I covered before in last week's blogpost but there is another extra bit of information that came to my attention in
Public Procurement
It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. In total, we're talking 117 new trains at a cost close to €800M. The procurement procedure was launched
Public Procurement
Jean Tirole published an article recently based on a keynote speech to the EU DG Comp conference from late last year on the implications of expanding the remit of public agencies such as central banks and competition authorities. In it, Tirole expresses his concern about the call for enlarging these
Public Procurement
Albert has already done a deep dive into the Commission's recent Communication on the Public Procurement Data Space, so for those of you that are yet to get acquainted with the Communication his blogpost is probably the best starting point. As for me, I will take a bird&
Public Procurement
“Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.” - Marc Andreesen Over the last decade I have become increasingly concerned with the move to bolt on ever more objectives to be pursued by public procurement, from the compliance requirements of exclusion grounds to
Public Procurement
As mentioned on yesterday's blogpost, one of the doubts I had on my mind was on the legality of the transposition of Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU into Portugal in its current draft of Article 370 of the Public Contracts Code. The Portuguese law makers have