Public Procurement

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Pedro Telles

May 30, 2017

1. A settlement under an existing public contract could result in the complete re-tendering of the contract

2. New Belgian public procurement directives implemented

3. Nationalists would implement transparent digital public procurement system in Malta. Well, it has to happen by 2018 anyway. Same party also wants to spend 25% of procurement spend with SMEs.

4. Indian Government creates "Make in India" local preference (20%) for public contracts. What can go wrong?

5. Macau considers new public procurement law to "reduce tendency of public departments to split up service contracts, thereby avoiding the need for tendering". Funny how the same problems/strategies can crop up anywhere in the world...

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The procurement Directive(s) is(are) getting reviewed

Last week, in her speech on the political guidelines for her new term as Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen announced the following in relation to public procurement: "We must also make better use of public procurement – which accounts for 14% of EU GDP. A 1% efficiency gain in

New publication availabe

I've just uploaded to SSRN my (draft) entry for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of EU Law. It's on general principles and here's the abstract: "Public procurement regulation within the EU is subject to a mixture of primary, secondary law and case law. This

Portugal's upcoming procurement law(s) review

A flipside of having commented on the recent Portuguese general election party manifestos is that I now have a record of proposals. None paid much attention to procurement and certainly no one suggested a profound revision of the Public Contracts Code. Fast forward a mere 4 months and that is

The UK General Election manifestos procurement promises: Greens

Out of the manifestos analysed, the Green Party one is by far the shortest. It is unsurprising then that there is not much to be found about procurement in it. The only proposal it contains is that they will campaign to bring the Prompt Payment Code into law and debar