Public Procurement
On the tail of Albert's comment earlier today and Abby Semple's from a couple of weeks ago: "Politicians expect green public procurement (GPP) to serve as an environmental policy instrument. However, in order for GPP to work as an effective policy instrument, it is important
Public Procurement
Regulation 72 - Modification of contracts during their term Modifying contracts during their performance and how to deal with prospective modifications is a big, big deal and has been problematic for many years. For example, change a contract too much and perhaps the winner would not have won it. More importantly,
Public Procurement
Regulation 71 - Subcontracting Regulation 71 brings specific rules on how to deal with subcontracting situations, a (partial) novelty to the Public Contracts Regulations as the 2006 Regulations already included some rules. Here, they have been very much expanded. By and large the contracting authority is left with the discretion to
Public Procurement
1. Nice podcast about public procurement, from 2014. And no, it's not mine. Speaking of which, episode #3 with Frank Brunetta (Canadian Procurement Ombudsman) is now up. 2. The weird and wonderful world of local authority procurement. My Society looks like a very interesting project. 3. New Mistery
Public Procurement
A version of the presentation I delivered yesterday about thresholds on Global Revolution VII is up on the presentation's tab. For those of you in attendance yesterday, I used Perspective on the iPad to plot the graphics. Took me (and my wife) an eternity to format the spreadsheet
Public Procurement
This is just a taster of what I will be talking about this afternoon at Global Revolution VII
Public Procurement
Regulation 70 - Conditions for performance of contracts Regulation 70 allows contracting authorities to establish specific conditions for the performance of contracts. This is a short regulation with two simple paragraphs but full of implications for public procurement. You can find Albert's entry here. Unsurprisingly, he is much a
Public Procurement
Busy week for procurement news/tidbits it seems: 1. Abby Semple replied to my entry about life cycle costing. She has a paper on the subject-matter link between award criteria and environmental considerations (ungated copy here). 2. Public procurement needs a higher profile. Fully agreed. 3. Will more public
Public Procurement
Regulation 69 - Abnormally low tenders Regulation 69 establishes the obligation for contracting authorities to investigate abnormally low tenders and transposes Article 69 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. I have always been fascinated with abnormally low tenders and would love to know how often they
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1. Getting rid of PQQs has unintended consequences as same questions are now asked in full tender. I was about to file this on the "hogwash & bullshit" file as ConstructionLine has a vested interest here, but changed my mind after thinking about it . As I have argued
Public Procurement
Regulation 68 - Life-cycle costing Regulation 68 brings the possibility of contracting authorities using life-cycle costing in their procurement exercises to determine the best bid. By life-cycle costing it is meant the incorporation of costs into the awarding models that are usually not included in the assessment. In
Public Procurement
Regulation 67 - Contract award criteria Regulation 67 establishes the way that contract award criteria are to be developed and used by contracting criteria when awarding contracts. The Regulation is very descriptive and provides a number of helpful pointers for contracting authorities (paragraphs 3 and 5). Overall the Regulation seems to