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Most economically advantageous award criteria sentences to ponder

Pedro Telles

13 Jun 2022

From a new(ish) paper by Francesco Decarolis and Cristina Giorgiantonio on corruption red flags in public procurement:

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As I have said many times, even as a proponent of using most economically advantageous tender criteria in public procurement, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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New paper on electronic procurement is out

I have a new paper out on electronic public procurement in the EU, focused on the failures of the current legislative framework with some ideas of what should be done in the upcoming revision of the procurement Directives. Here's the abstract: This paper critiques the EU’s electronic

By Pedro Telles 04 Jul 2025

What does the programme of the Danish EU Presidency say about public procurement?

The Danish EU Presidency has put out its programme for the upcoming semester when Denmark will hold the presidency of the Council of the European Union. The programme is called "A strong Europe in a changing world" but when it comes down to public procurement we are not

By Pedro Telles 26 Jun 2025

New working paper is out

I have just uploaded to SSRN a new working paper on the failure of the successive rounds of Directives in solving the direct cross-border issue. In short, home bias is as almost as present today as it was in the 1960s. For this one I dabbed a bit outside the

By Pedro Telles 19 Jun 2025

The Commission's Q&A on Kolin and Qingdao leaves many questions unanswered

The European Commission put out last week a non-paper on the interpretation and application of the Kolin and Qingdao cases for economic operators coming from third countries. This is a fairly cautious document and probably the most the Commission can do at the moment and in this Q&A

By Pedro Telles 20 May 2025
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