Public Procurement
Spain’s current public procurement law imposes strong transparency requirements for most contracts below the financial thresholds, restricting the use of non-transparent procedures to contracts value at below €15,000 (services) or €40,000 (works) only. My take is that overall this is a positive step and one that
Public Procurement
The GPA members and the UK have reached an agreement allowing for the country to acceed to the Agreement if and when it leaves the European Union. This agreement ensures a continuity of the international procurement legal regime for UK-based undertakings and those based on the GPA members. Back
Public Procurement
Eurotunnel is suing the Department for Transport due to the ferry contract(s) awarded back in December without proper tendering procedures. This turn of affairs is not really surprising and a logical consequence of the poor handling of those contracts. The merits of the actual complaint, they appear obvious. In
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1. State aid: Commission finds no aid in €1.1 billion extension of Athens International Airport concession 2. Information Note on Incorporating Social Considerations into Public Procurement 3. Father and Son Suddenly Die in Bizarre Twist to Colombia Bribery Case 4. How to use the quality-price ratio for procurement
Public Procurement
This may not come as a surprise to anyone working in this area of practice, but the CMA has provisionally found guilty two companies operating in the construction sector, specifically in the pre-cast concrete drainage sector. These two companies have admitted being part of a cartel whereas a third
Public Procurement
The UK adopted in late 2017 a anti-corruption strategy for the 2017-2022 period. One year on from the publication of the original strategy, an update has just been released. Reducing corruption in public procurement and grants was and remains a key objective of the strategy, but whereas the
The Institute for Government published today a report on the UK government procurement practice, specifically on the scale and nature of public expenditure via public procurement. Here’s the abstract: “ ”
Public Procurement
1. Scottish Government to explore construction of GOV.UK Pay alternative 2. Is G-Cloud Broken 3. France approves new public procurement code coming into force in April 2019 (French only) 4. Govtech accelerator Public joins hands with Accenture to digitise UK government 5. Procurement and compliance costs (from the
Public Procurement
1. Vietnam to open public procurement market for foreign investors. 2. China in the Balkans: Motivations behind growing influence. 3. Italy’s National Anti-Corruption Authority is the first winner of the European Commission’s Digital Transformation award. Brownie points for them using Tor to protect whistleblowers. 4. Engaging with
Public Procurement
Although the general deadline for transposition of the 2014 public procurement Directives was April 2016, Article 90 of Directive 2014/24/EU provided the Member States more time to get their act together in what concerns electronic procurement. Well, the deadline for transposition of the remaining electronic procurement obligations contained
Public Procurement
Last week, Bloomberg ran an article claiming the USA and two other countries were blocking the UKs accession to the GPA agreement. Yesterday, it doubled down on the story stating New Zealand and Moldova as the two other members blocking the UK. and provided more information about why Moldova is
Legal
This is a slide I will be using on Monday’s EU law lecture. I have not drilled down into the details, namely if there is any evolution or if there has been an increase on Commission’s delegated Regulations but I was suprised at the findings. The EU legal