In March and April I will be taking part in a couple of procurement related events. First off, the ERA annual procurement conference, to be held in Trier on March 20th and 21st. I have not visited Trier in many years and am very much looking forward to this one.
The Commission kickstarted late last year the process to revise the public procurement Directives from 2014, launching a call for evidence and public consultation to run until March 7th. While I am not optimistic about the outcome of the legislative process and where we may be headed in the regulation
I've uploaded to SSRN yesterday the final version of a new paper on the evolution of electronic procurement under Directive 2014/24/EU. Here's the abstract: "Traditionally, public procurement has been conducted on paper without any formal involvement of technology or electronic features. In 2004,
The CJEU laid down early this week a fairly important judgment on third country access to procurement. On case C-652/22 Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret the Court concluded that economic operators from third countries neither party to the GPA nor with whom the EU has a deal are