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Regulation 22 - Rules applicable to communication (part 1) Regulation 22 transposes Article 22 of Directive 2014/24/EU on the rules that contracting authorities are to follow related to communication with economic operators. As mentioned in day 1 of this slow motion procurement tennis match with Albert, some of these
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At Procurement Week this coming Thursday I will be chairing a procurement roundtable on the transposition of Directive 2014/24/EU into various Member States and which includes the following participants: • Nick Sullivan - Value Wales Procurement, Welsh Government, Wales, UK • Sally Collier, Crown Commercial Services, UK • Isabel Rosa - IMPIC, Portugal
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Regulation 21 - Confidentiality UPDATE: Scroll down for update Regulation 21 transposes Article 21 of Directive 2014/24/EU, establishing the obligation of contracting authorities to respect the confidentiality of any information conveyed by economic operators during tenders. This confidentiality rule is a clear exception to the principle of transparency and
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Regulation 19 - Economic operators Regulation 19 transposes Article 19 of Directive 2014/24/EU on rules applicable to economic operators. This Regulation and the original Article ensure that economic operators based in other Member States can participate in equal footing in public procurements in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and
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Regulation 20 - Reserved Contracts Regulation 20 transposes Article 20 from Directive 2014/24/EU on reserved contracts for sheltered workshops and economic operators aiming to integrate disadvantaged or disabled workers. The transposition is fairly straightforward fashion and once more, almost word for word with a minor difference. The very minor
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Regulation 18 - Principles of procurement Regulation 18 introduces Section 2 - General Rules. And there is no better way to start talking about general rules than to mention the principles applicable to public procurement. This Regulation transposes Article 18(1) of Directive 2014/24. Strictly speaking, there is nothing earth shattering
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1. Apparently I want to overthrow the current procurement framework. Well, sort of. (Will post heretic text here later today or tomorrow) 2. There is (was?) an enterprising trade in fake social security declarations/certificates in Portugal. (Portuguese only) A few thousand euros was all it took to get a
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Regulation 17 - Public contracts and design contests involving defence or security aspects which are awarded or organised pursuant to international rules Albert drew first blood today. Is entry is here. Regulation 17 establishes what sets of rules are applicable to a public contract or design contest which involve defence or
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Regulation 16 - Mixed procurement involving defence or security aspects Back in week 1 we talked about the issue of mixed procurements and how Directive 2014/24/EU and the Public Contracts Regulations solve this issue. Regulation 4 includes the general rules for mixed contracts and Regulation 16 rules specific for
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Ground covered this week This week Albert and I covered the last two exceptions to the application of Part 2 (exclusive rights and public-public cooperation) and three specific situations whereby Part 2 rules were explicitly extended to contracts that one might think would not be covered. These are extensions
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Regulation 15 - Defence and security Regulation 15 transposes Article 15 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This Regulation ensures that Part 2 applies to certain contracts within the field of defence and security. As mentioned before, defence and security benefit from exceptions to general procurement
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Regulation 14 - Research and development services Regulation 14 extends the application of Part 2 to some research and development contracts, which traditionally have been excluded from public procurement. This extension only applies if three conditions are met. First, the contracts need to classified under specific Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes.