Zusammenfassung der Ressource
EU PROCUREMENT
- LEGAL
FRAMEWORK
- TFEU Freedoms x3
- 1.Goods
- 2. Establishment
- 3. Services;
- EU Principles x5
- Equal treatment
- Transparency
- Non-discrimination
- Mutual recognition
- Proportionality
- New Directives
- PSD 2014/24/EU
- UPD 2014/25/EU
- Concession Contracts
2014/23/EU
- WHO MUST
COMPLY?
- CA (Contracting Authorities)
- Government departments
- Local authorities
- Police and fire
authorities
- NHS Trusts
- NDPBs
- WHICH
CONTRACTS ARE
COVERED?
- Public Supply Contracts
- Public Works Contract
- PSC or PWC under a Framework
Agreement (FA) or Dynamic Purchasing
System (DPS)
- AND where the
estimated value of
the
contract/framework
is = or > financial
threshold (net of
VAT).
- Additional UK national rules
Part 4 + Part 5
- IN-HOUSE &
POOLED
SERVICES
- DLO's and DSO's generally
exempt
- Teckal Exemption
(in-house companies)
- Control Test
- Activities Test
- Private Capital Participation
- Hamburg Exemption
(pooled funding)
- Control Test
- Public Interest
- Open Market Test
- ADVERTISING
- Contracts Caught: OJEU NOTICE
- Prior Information Note (PIN)
- PIN (12 Month
period) call for
competition
- PROCEDURES
- Open Procedure (OP)
- Restricted Procedure (RP)
- Competitive Dialogue (CDP)
- Competitive Procedure with Negotiation (CP-w-N)
- Innovation Partnership procedure (IPP)
- partnership
structured with
progressive
phases
- Accelerated Restricted Procedure (ARP)
- Accelerated CD + CP-w-N
- PRINCIPLES OF
CONTRACT
- SELECTION
(PRE-QUALIFICATION)
- Mandatory Exclusion
Grounds
- Organised crime,
corruption, fraud or
money laundering
- Discretionary Exclusion
- bankruptcy or
professional
misconduct
- Note new rules of self-cleaning
- PQQ
- Minimum Turnover
requirement max x2 of
contract value
- PQQ stage prohibited for
- sub-threshold contracts
(apart from sub-threshold
works valued between
£173,934 (£111,676 for
central government) and
£4,322,012)
- LTR contracts valued between £173,934
(£111,676 for central government) and the
sterling equivalent of EU 750k.
- AWARD
PROCEDURE
TIMESCALES
- OP
- Min time between
OJEU N and tenders =
52 days (40 if electronic).
- PIN can reduce
further if published
ast least 52 days
before and no > than
12 months before
OJEU N.
- RP
- Min time between
invitation and tender
PQQ = 37 (30 if
electronically)
- ARP
- Only if 'urgency': 15 days
for receipt of PQQs (10
days if electronic OJEU)
THEN 10 days for receipt
of tenders.
- CDP +
CP-w-N
- Min time between
invitation and
Dialogue /
Negotiation / PQQ = 37
Days (30 if
electronically)
- Acc CDP
+ CP-w-N
- Min time between
invitation and
Negotiation / PQQ
= 15 (10
electronically)
- IPP
- EVALUATION OF BIDS
AND AWARD STAGE
- Now based on
MEAT (Most
Economically
Advantageous
Tender)
- must include specific
reference to social and
environmental criteria
- Alcatel 10 day
standstill applies
- Must be clear distinction
between selection criteria
and award criteria
- RENEWALS,
EXTENSIONS &
MATERIAL CHANGES
- New Contract if a 'material change'
- Codified 'Pressetext' Principles
- 1. Introducing conditions
which would have resulted in
different tenderer outcome
- 2. Alter
contract
scope
- 3. economic balance
changed in favour of
contractor
- FRAMEWORKS
- Cannot exceed 4 years period
- Call-off
contracts
achieved in
2 ways
- 1. Direct call-offs
- 2. Mini-competitions
- ENFORCEMENT & REMEDIES
- Options
- 1. Damages
- 2. Suspension of Award (if
contract not entered in to)
- 3.Contract deemed
'ineffective' + civil
financial penalties
- Requirements
- Complainant must start proceedings
within 30 days of when it “knew of ought
to have known that grounds for starting
the proceedings had arisen”
- For an an Ineffectiveness
challenge
- If no OJEU notice:
proceedings must start
within 6 months of contract
being entered in to
- If was OJEU notice:
30 days of CAN
- Note: Voluntary
Transparency Notice
- WHICH CONTRACTS
ARE NOT COVERED?
- Expressly Excluded
- < £ Threshold (net of VAT)
- PWC £4,322,012
- PSC central govt £111,676
- PSC by sub-central £173,934
- LTR for Annex XIV listed
procurements 750,000 Euros
- Light Touch Regime
- LTR for Annex
XIV listed
- Above €750,000 c-b interest
- Below €750,000 not c-b interest
- Note Mixed
Contracts +
Aggregation
Rules +
Realistic
Prospect
caveat
- Development
Agreements
- MINIMUMS FOR TENDER
- *Competitive
Dialogue (3)
- Restricted (5)
- Competitive
Procedure with
Negotiation (3)