Public Procurement
The Commission published yesterday a new white paper on levelling playing field as regards foreign subsidies. This white paper covers a number of areas, including public procurement. Most of the comments on public procurement are not exactly new, such as the issues surrounding third country access to public procurement. In
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1. UK ventilator manufacturers protected from injury claims 2. A look into emergency procurement and beyond 3. General Motor’s first ventilators are ready for delivery 4. Feds will pay GM USD489M to make 30,000 ventilators by August 5. Coronavirus: Three quarters of public favour working with EU to
Public Procurement
The UK Government published last week the guidelines for its negotiations with the EU regarding a future trade deal. Absent from inclusion in the document is public procurement, which can give us an indication of what is the Government objective for the area. Using the idea of ´regulatory divergence´ by
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1. Thousands of contracts in Spain are awarded illegaly due ot fractioning (Spanish) 2. Post-Brexit public procurement rules face a shake-up (gated) 3. EU-Vietnam free trade deal gets green light in EU Parliament trade committee 4. The EU is funding dystopian AI projects 5. Ferries are a ‘long way off
Public Procurement
The Government has just published an extensive No-Deal Readiness report that happens to mention public procurement in two instances: Procurement: Leaving the EU presents an opportunity to design a radically new regulatory framework for public procurement which better meets UK needs, drives improved commercial outcomes, delivers greater simplification and flexibility,
Public Procurement
Well, it looks like today is transparency day in the blog as the NAO has just published a report on the spend by Central Government with consultants for Brexit related matters. Predictably it makes for grim reading and here’s a bit of the press release (the final paragraph): The
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Myself and Albert co-authored a blogpost at the University of Bristol’s Law School blog reflecting on the frustrating state of trying to undertake EU law research in these times of Brexit and fitting it into the good old REF framework. Here’s a snippet: Brexit, its research and its
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The GPA members and the UK have reached an agreement allowing for the country to acceed to the Agreement if and when it leaves the European Union. This agreement ensures a continuity of the international procurement legal regime for UK-based undertakings and those based on the GPA members. Back in
Public Procurement
Eurotunnel is suing the Department for Transport due to the ferry contract(s) awarded back in December without proper tendering procedures. This turn of affairs is not really surprising and a logical consequence of the poor handling of those contracts. The merits of the actual complaint, they appear obvious. In
Brexit
The UK Government published recently a guidance note on the potential impact for public contracts access in case there is no deal with the EU before March 29 2019. There is not really much actionable information and perhaps calling it “guidance” is a slight misnomer as the document is more
Public Procurement
Myself and Albert have just made available on SSRN a new working paper on Brexit and public procurement, focused mostly on the transition agreement. As usual, we welcome comments and criticism. Here's the abstract: “ ”
Public Procurement
Can't really say I am surprised by De La Rue's decision, but the motives are a joy to read: "We've done our homework, we've taken legal advice, we've looked at, frankly, the likelihood of overturning the decision and the
Public Procurement
Building upon two week's ago decision to award the first post-Brexit UK passports to an Franco-Dutch (Dutch-French?) company, it seems De La Rue is initiating proceedings to get the award decision reviewed. This is yet another timely reminder EU law is still applicable in the UK since the
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It seems Gemalto, a French company has won the contract to produce the UK passports post-Brexit. FT has the scoop: "Gemalto, a security company based in Paris, is expected to win a tender process ahead of the UK’s De La Rue, one person briefed on the decision said.
Public Procurement
The Commission published on March 19th a revised Draft Agreement on the UK's withdrawal from the EU, conveniently colour coded green, yellow and white to denote different levels of agreement between the parties. Green means the text has been agreed but is still subject to technical legal revision,
Public Procurement
The UK Government has just published a technical note detailing its approach in phase 2 to a number of different areas, including ongoing public procurement procedures. The Government disputes the EU's assumption that Union law should be applicable to ongoing procedures and states instead that "in practical