Portuguese general elections 2025
Like (just) last year, I am once again going to look at the party manifestos of the various parties running in the Portuguese General Election to be held in a couple of weeks. The focus of this analysis is exclusive to their proposals for public procurement - a hot topic in
DEI
It was yesterday on the news that the US federal government via its embassies requested EU companies to confirm that they do not have DEI policies in place. The details are sketchy but they seem to have targeted at least French companies and in particular companies who have or are
Procurement Directives Revision
On this final entry based on my response to the public consultation on the revision of the procurement Directives I focus instead on what should not change and is worth keeping as it is. 44. While tempting to focus on change in the context of the public consultation for a
Procurement Directives Revision
On this seventh entry I covered the idea that was floated back in the original draft for the 2014 procurement Directive of the creation of a single oversight body in each member State. I remember hearing some arguments about why that was dropped but honestly the details evade me at
Public consultation
This sixth entry covers a topic I did not look into earlier when discussing my ideas for the procurement reform. The issue of legal services has been in my mind for a couple of decades now ever since I started working in public procurement as a lawyer and the industry&
Procurement Directives Revision
The fifth entry into this series about my submission the EU consultation on the revision of the procurement Directives is on exclusions reform and how taking them out of the procurement process is an obvious win for simplification. 30. Currently, contracting authorities have to apply mandatory and optional exclusions during
Procurement Directives Revision
This fourth entry is focused on the number of public procurement procedures currently included in the procurement toolbox and how they should be reduced to three: open, competitive with negotiation and a new procedure for services 22. At the moment, a contracting authority has access to open, restricted, competitive dialogue,
Procurement Directives Revision
The third entry into the series on my response to the procurement Directives revision consultation is on electronic procurement and how and why it needs to be redesigned 15. The current electronic procurement framework requires fundamental reform because it merely digitises analogue processes rather than reimagining procurement for the digital
Procurement Directives Revision
My second entry into this series on my submission to the consultation on the revision of the procurement Directives is on thresholds and why we should abolish them: 7. The current system of financial thresholds is illogical as it puts a floor into the single market: contracts above certain values
CBS
We are recruiting for a PhD position in Climate Law at CBS Law. More specifically we are looking for: "The central aim of this PhD scholarship is to advance our understanding of recent developments in climate law. It can, for example, concern climate law and policies with tort law
Procurement Directives Revision
Having submitted my response to the Commission's EU public procurement consultation last week after revising the ideas I discussed previously in the blog and on Linkedin, I decided to upload it section by section here to the blog. Today's entry is on the choice of legislative
Procurement Act 2023
The Procurement Act came into force a couple of days ago, and it is already being marshalled to deliver on something it probably should not. As horrible as the Greenfell Tower fire was, I don't see how the Procurement Act debarment process can be applied in the terms