Awarding in emergency situation: the corona test centers

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Was the awarding of corona test centers unlawful? In the dispute over the state-owned Corona test centres, Berlin lost before court. The KG confirmed decisions of the Public Procurement Chamber according to which the awarding of contracts for the operation of the test centres was unlawful: Decision of 10.05.2022, Ref. Verg 1/22 and Verg 2/22…

War-Related Procurements: Germans Procurement Reaction

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Facilitations under public procurement law for war-related procurements The situation in Ukraine is keeping us with bated breath. Never before have we realised how everything in our modern world is connected like a jigsaw puzzle, and never before have we realised that if one piece of the puzzle is lost, nothing fit anymore. As in…

Public procurement procedures

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Open procedure (EU-Procurement Law)/ public tendering (national award)            We talk about open procedures (for national proceedings below the EU thresholds: public tendering) in the specific case of contracting authority publicly requesting an unlimited number of companies to submit their offers. Restricted procedure (EU-Procurement Law/ restricted tendering (national award) A procedure is considered restricted (Europe-wide) in…