Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) assures the daily publication of the Supplement to the Official Journal (OJ S) as well as user-friendly and authoritative access to EU public procurement notices and to tender documents of the EU institutions. Public procurement publication is a condition to ensure...
The aim of this report is to summarize the work of the Regulatory Aspects and Interpretation (RAI) subgroup, carried out from March 2015 to June 2016, by identifying the most pertinent problems for Member States when implementing e-procurement provisions in the new Public Procurement Directives....
As concession contracts are long-term agreements that are inherently incomplete, the economic literature suggests that rigid award rules are inadequate. We suggest that the Directive for the awarding of concession contracts should contain a balanced mix of flexible and rigid rules, as well as pr...
This guidance responds to the recurring questions of public buyers and reassures them that there are tools in the public procurement framework to ensure equal treatment between bidders – whether from inside or outside the EU – and to address concerns regarding unfair competitive advantages....
The EU public procurement market is one of the largest and most accessible in the world. In Europe, companies from other countries can bid for public tenders on an equal footing with European companies. However despite this openness, many of the EU’s major trading partners apply restrictive prac...
This report aims to support service providers, contracting authorities and economic operators alike when they encounter problems while using electronic means for e-tendering. Such problems can be systemic or of a one-off nature. For example, the report includes several examples of where regulato...
This report is part of the ‘Study to support the development of sea basin cooperation in the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Ionian, and Black Sea’ launched by DG MARE in January 2013. The objectives of this Study are to (i) identify the Blue Growth needs and potential of Mediterranean and Black Sea...
This Annex contains detailed analysis carried out for Task 3 whose results have been reported in the Report 2. Also this Annex has been structured into 4 thematic reports, one for each Pillar. Each report contains: - Data mapping: the purpose of this sub-task is to determine what data are availa...
The main objective of the study is to identify, assess and design four ‘innovation procurement’ actions, or pilot cases, which could be implemented within Horizon 2020 LEIT Space, while assessing the expected opportunities and associated risks for each action. Specifically, the study has the obj...