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Transparency International put out a detailed report about the experience in Slovakia of mandatory advertising of contract award information. I am a huge fan of contract award transparency and am always on the lookout for things like this report which is full of interesting findings. Apparently Slovakian contracting authorities have
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Regulation 64 - Recognition of official lists of approved economic operators and certification by certification bodies Regulation 64 establishes the rules surrounding the use of official lists and certification by certification bodies that contracting authorities may accept in a public procurement procedure. Albert's long entry is here. This
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1. Blockchain can be used for supply chain tracking. It seems my idea last week of using some sort of blockchain technology to solve the reputation issue in public procurement and a decentralised contract repository/database is not as crazy as I originally thought. 2. Canada wakes up to open
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Regulation 63 - Reliance on the capacities of other entities On Regulation 63 we can find the rules related to the use of technical and financial capacity from third parties to justify the participation of an economic operator on a public procurement procedure. It transposes Article 63 of Directive 2014/
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Regulation 62 - Quality assurance standards and environmental management standards Regulation 62 establishes the rules governing the use of standards in the fields of quality assurance and environmental management that can be used by contracting authorities. There are not many comments to make to this Regulation in addition to the
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Regulation 61 - Recourse to e-Certis Regulation 61 transposes Article 61 of Directive 2014/24 and defines the obligation to contracting authorities to have access to the e-Certis (online repository database) operated by the Commission. Regulation 1 paragraph 5 deferred the deadline for implementation of the e-Certis system in England,
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Regulation 60 - Means of proof Regulation 60 establishes the rules regarding the means of proof that contracting authorities may require economic operators to provide attesting their capabilities or compliance with requirements. As Albert said, the means of proof are regulated in minute detail in Regulation 60 and are limited
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During the 3rd European Conference last week I tweeted this: Crazy idea: What if we had a blockchain type of technology to keep track of procurement contracts?May 19, 2015 The more I think about this idea, the more I see merit in its farfetched possibilities. First, a technology primer.
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1. The only real PPP in Portugal is dead (Portuguese only). By real I mean a deal where the risk stayed with the private contractor instead of the public sector. Teixeira Duarte (private contractor) allegedly lost €42M in the deal, a significant sum in a small country like Portugal. 2.
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Regulation 59 - European Single Procurement Document Regulation 59 brings us one of the big changes introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU and the new Regulations: the possibility of using a self-declaration by economic operators instead of having all participants providing all the documentation at the selection stage. The European
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Regulation 58 - Selection criteria Regulation 58 defines the rules under which contracting authorities may proceed to select economic operators during a public procurement procedure. Under this Regulation, contracting authorities may undertake the selection of economic operators according to their suitability to pursue a professional activity, economic and financial standing
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Regulation 57 - Exclusion grounds Regulation 57 brings us the rules governing the exclusion of candidates from a public procurement procedure, transposing Article 57 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This Regulation is divided into six parts: general rules leading to mandatory exclusion; mandatory and