- European Procurement
European Procurement is a centralized system of notification of public
procurement of all supplies, services, and works by government bodies in theEuropean Union (formerly known as the EEC) has been in existence since before 1992, as seen in [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/consleg/1992/L/01992L0050-20040501-en.pdf Directive 92/50/EEC] . It is estimated that up to 16% of the region's GDP falls within this category. [http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/index_en.htm]The procedure is intended to be fully transparent with the intention of creating a free and competitive Europe-wide market. The rules state that for projects above a certain threshold (about £100,000K [http://www.ogc.gov.uk/procurement_policy_and_application_of_eu_rules_eu_procurement_thresholds_.asp] ) a contract notice in a particular form must dispatched to the OJEC S-Series, now known as
OJEU where it is published. Nowadays the information is available immediately on the web from [http://ted.europa.eu/ Tenders Electronic Daily] .The buyer can advertise the contract more widely, but cannot do so before it has notifying OJEC, and is forbidden from including information that isn't given there.
After the prescribed date, the bids as opened and assessed, and the "economically most advantageoustender" is chosen. The award must also be reported in OJEC.
The system is under constant revision to avoid misuse. Rejected bidders are up to ten days to challenge a decision, and the
European Commission routinely acts to police infringements. [http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/infringements_en.htm]Framework agreements
In recent years there has shift in the system to allow it to handle the awarding of framework agreements. These are not in themselves procurement contracts, but they set out the terms of such contract with suppliers in advance over a set time. [http://www.bipsolutions.com/briefings/Briefings2003/Brief11_03.php] For example, if dozens of independent schools in the UK all wish to buy computer equipment,
Becta is able to award a framework agreement to a set of companies so that, if they buy from the list, they don't need to go through the full European Procurement process.The current regulation in the UK is published in UK SI
year = 2006
number = 5
title = The Public Contracts Regulations 2006
section = 19
url = http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20060005.htm#19Procedures
There are several different procedures available for public authorities. These include the Open, Restricted, Negotiated and Competitive Dialogue procedures. Each of these procedures sets its own limitations on the procuring authority, which must be considered when choosing the appropriate procedure.
Wikipedia links
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European_leaders_in_procurement
* Public eProcurement
*Government_procurement
*Russian Procurement External links
* [http://www.massin.nl/eSourcing/ Strategic Sourcing | Europe (News, Methodologies, Best practices, Technologies, tools about Sourcing and Procurement)]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/index_en.htm Internal Market public procurement]
* [http://www.ogc.gov.uk/procurement.asp Office of Government Commerce UK]
* [http://simap.europa.eu/ SIMAP]
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