Tender evaluation in public procurement law
The evaluation of the offers by the public sector takes place in four statutory levels, the order of which must be observed. A commingling of the levels, an evaluation at the wrong level or the…
Principles of public procurement law
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…
Threshold values in public procurement law
If, according to § 2 VgV*[1], the expected order value exceeds a so-called threshold, a Europe-wide awarding proceeding must be carried out. In such a case, it can be assumed that the mandate is of…
Electronic Procurement law in Germany
eProcurement law Public procurement authorities and companies in the upper threshold area shall already principally use electronic means of communication (see § 97 (5) GWB, § 9 (1) VgV). The electronic procurement (E-Vergabe) makes it…
Public procurement procedures
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…