Public Procurement
This week, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggested a future Labour Government would bring PFI contracts in house. Details are sketchy (as always...) but the issue has been extensively covered in the media. Even the FT joined in the chorus with some pieces on the shortfalls of the scheme (here,
Public Procurement
One of Portugal's top newspapers investigated the direct award of a €5.179.873,44 public works project by the Lisbon City Council to Teixeira Duarte, one of the largest construction companies in the country. The piece is an example of how direct award (negotiated procedure without competition
Public Procurement
I have just co-authored a paper with Grith Skovgaard Olykke from Copenhagen Business School about how compliance requirements are creeping up in EU public procurement law, particularly in the field of sustainability. Here's the abstract: “ ” The paper was published on a special edition of the EPPPL co-
Public Procurement
1. Some local councils in Portugal take up to 2,000 days to pay their suppliers (Portuguese only). 2. Navarra adopts new (regional) public procurement law (Spanish only). 3. The Commission gets what the Commission measures. 4. Which buyers award contracts to Small Businesses? 5. CJEU backs automatic exclusion of
Thresholds. I have written a couple of times (here and here) about how the EU financial thresholds make no sense in this day and age. Long story short, they were created in the 70s and 80s and have largely remained unchanged once EEC/European Union joined the GPA. There is
USA
For once, it is not me saying it but Dixon, Rimmer and Waschik in their "Evaluating the effects of local content measures in a CGE model: Eliminating the US Buy America(n) programs" paper: "Like many countries, the U.S. implements local content policies. Through these policies,
Public Procurement
1. US General Services Administration prototypes blockchain. 2. PFI is bankrupting Britain. 3. Portuguese CPB officials under fire for accepting trips paid by economic operator (Portuguese only). 4. Critics see hole in Royal Navy’s new shipbuilding strategy. 5. Abnormally low tenders raise (legal) questions in Portugal (Portuguese only).
Public Procurement
The European Commission has just published its position paper regarding public procurement within the context of the Brexit negotiations. Here are the main take aways: 1. Current rules are to be followed until Brexit happens and procedures/framework agreements being conducted at that moment subject to the same rules as
Public Procurement
Portugal has just transposed the Procurement Directives (well, new law is not in force yet). The full blown 476 article law (Decree-Law 111-B/2017) revising the Public Contracts Code is available here in Portuguese only. Needless to say it goes well beyond the requirements for transposition, maintaining instead
Three days on, I'm still unable to say much about what happened in Barcelona. But I can talk about our enduring special relationship. The city where I got married remains my mistress. The city where I lived a challenging year a decade ago, but to which I return
Public Procurement
This is about a week old, but a pretty big deal. What a monumental screw up: “” That the procurement procedure did not take into account how to handle classified data (let alone the bog standard data protection rules) is beyond comprehension. Well, not really: it is another piece of evidence
Public Procurement
1. China’s new Silk Road risks unravelling in Hungary. 2. Catalan construction companies investigated for possible cartel [Spanish only]. 3. The U.S. Government’s long road to adopting the cloud. 4. Buy American’ has little meaning in today’s world of globalized supply chains. 5. New Spanish procurement