Public Procurement
A taster of today's presentation about thresholds
This is just a taster of what I will be talking about this afternoon at Global Revolution VII
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Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - Regulation 70
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
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Links I Liked [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 services
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Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - Regulation 69
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
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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
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Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - Regulation 68
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 other words,
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Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - Regulation 67
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
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New project: Public Procurement Podcast
I hinted over the last few months that I was about to launch a new project. Time to take the wraps out of the Public Procurement Podcast (PPP). Episode #1 with the usual suspect Dr. Albert Sanchez Graells is up and #2 will go on air tomorrow (Dr. Claire Methven
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Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - Regulations 65 and 66
Regulation 65 - Reduction of the number of otherwise qualified candidates to be invited to participate Regulation 66 - Reduction of the number of tenders and solutions What do Regulations 65 and 66 brings us? The rules on how qualified candidates (ie candidates that otherwise would be allowed to continue
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The sorry state of the Tenders Electronic Daily
I have never been a huge fan of the Tenders Electronic Daily. I like the idea do not get me wrong, but the implementation has always puzzled me. It looks, feels and acts like a relic from the late 90s, particularly in comparison with more modern alternatives like ContractsFinder. The
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Slovakia, public procurement and transparency
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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Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - Regulation 64
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