Indicative Tenders and Negotiations

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Indicative Tenders and Negotiation: What do you need to know? Is is possible to negotiate and round up indicative bids after your company has won the tender? Let’s have a look at this tribunal proceeding (BayObLG, Decision of 03.06.2022 – Verg 7/22):   Tribunal Decision of 03.06.2022 Award 7/22 (1) The contracting authority may organise…

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…

Awarding Contracts above EU Thresholds

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For tenders/awards above the threshold values, the so-called GWB public procurement law applies. This latter is based on the implementation of corresponding requirements in EU directives: Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) – Part 4. The basics of public procurement law above the threshold are contained in Part 4 of the Act against Restraints of…

Principles of public procurement law

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When purchasing goods or services, the public sector has to make an economic use of the communal funds, as public contracts are paid by citizens ‘taxes. For this reason, it has to adhere to a few principles in the occasion of carrying out new awards (which are regulated in § 97 GWB). These requirements have…