(See Pedro’s thoughts here) The ‘European preference’ chapter of the Public Procurement Act proposal gives the Commission the authority to adopt delegated acts in two instances – one in Article 75 (making it mandatory for contracting authorities to implement European preference requirements – more on this in the commentary on Article 75), and the other…
(See Pedro’s thoughts here) In the last week’s commentary on Article 70, I mentioned the inherent complexity in determining what will be covered economic operators, goods, services and works from one public procurement procedure to the next. A ‘covered’ economic operator in one procedure may not be ‘covered’ in another conducted by the same contracting…
(See Pedro’s thoughts on Article 70 here) Public procurement procedures conducted in a Member State may see three kinds of economic operators: those from Member States (including the Member State where the procurement is conducted), those from countries with plurilateral or bilateral trade agreements in place with the EU that contain procurement provisions/chapters, and those from…
This is exciting! Pedro and I are very happy to share with you that we will be writing a commentary of the Public Procurement Act proposal! We talk an unhealthy amount every day – so we might as well do something constructive! You can read Pedro’s initial thoughts here. How will this work, you asked?…
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