Public Procurement

New paper on competitive dialogue available on SSRN

Pedro Telles

Jun 15, 2022

I have just uploaded a new paper to SSRN reflecting on the 18 years of competitive dialogue:

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This paper will published in the forthcoming book published in Steen Treumer’s memory and as far as publications go, for me this was a veritable labour of love which I am grateful for having had the opportunity to work on. Some may know that competitive dialogue was the topic of my Ph.D thesis but perhaps the majority won’t that Steen Treumer was my external examiner and that he was instrumental in the early years of my academic career.

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

New publication availabe

Portugal's upcoming procurement law(s) review

The UK General Election manifestos procurement promises: Greens