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Regulation 31 - Innovation Partnership In Regulation 31 we can find the new innovation partnership "procedure" introduced in Article 31 of Directive 2014/24/EU. The purpose of this new "procedure" is to allow for the public and private sector to establish partnerships with the aim of
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Regulation 30 - Competitive Dialogue After our short Easter break (yes, it was short for academic standards...) myself and Albert are back to our running commentary on the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Today we will be talking about Regulation 30 which transposes Article 30 of Directive 2014/24/EU on competitive
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Abby Semple calls on her blog for more evidence-based research in public procurement, particularly regarding SME access to public contracts. I agree with her view in general and have made similar calls about social policies in public procurement. Having said that, there is some good research being done by
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While at Procurement Week a couple of weeks ago, Sally Collier confirmed that new guidance from the Government about the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 was on its way. She also promised that it would be short and to the point, in contrast with the mountains of guidance in times
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The particular procurement tennis match myself and Dr. Albert Sanchez-Graells have been playing since early February is taking a short intermission. Like Wimbledon this is due to the rain and/or lack of sunlight, not player injury. We will resume the match on Wednesday April 8th. So far we
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Albert looked into the CJEU's data report for 2014 and compiled a nice graph on the evolution of public procurement litigation at EU level over the last 8 years: This graph tells us an important story: the number of public procurement cases brought before the CJEU (General Court
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1. More data about England's Mystery Shopper Service. I still think it should morph into a proper Procurement Ombudsman a la Canadian. 2. NESTA's 6 ideas how procurement stifles innovation. Sound about right but for me reasons 4 (incentives) and 6 (skills) are the most important.
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Regulation 29 - Competitive procedure with negotiation How many ways can we skin the negotiation cat? Well, according to Directive 2014/24/EU in three different ways: with competitive dialogue, negotiated procedure and competitive procedure with negotiation. The last one is a new introduction of Directive 2014/24/EU and the
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Regulation 28 - Restricted procedure Regulation 28 transposes Article 28 of Directive 2014/24/EU on the restricted procedure. As with the open procedure we analysed yesterday, most novelties are related to shortening timescales. The general rule is that economic operators will have 30 days to submit their request for participation,
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1. Ooops, we spent too much on our waste contract 2. We should have a Procurement Minister, says Labour 3. Local authorities "should not gold plate procurement says minister." Why not regulate the way they procure then, says Pedro. 4. Wales will refresh its procurement policy, said Jane
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Regulation 27 - Open procedure Regulation 27 transposes Article 27 of Directive 2014/24/EU into England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This Regulations establishes some of the rules applicable to the open procedure, particularly the time limits which have been shortened considerably from Directive 2004/18/EC. The minimum time limit
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Regulation 26 - Choice of procedure Regulation 26 transposes Article 26 of Directive 2014/24/EU and brings us to a part of procurement law I am much more comfortable with: the procedures. The purpose of Regulation 26/Article 26 is to establish the situations where different procedures can be used.