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Procurement and tax: beware your sins will find you out

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • March 7 2013

With effect from 1 April 2013 suppliers tendering for government contracts above the threshold will be required to declare their tax compliance

Commission erroneously evaluated tender on the basis of bidders’ experience

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • December 16 2011

The General Court (GC) has criticised the European Commission’s basing of the award of a contract on the criterion of the tenderers’ experience in breach of procurement rules which require experience to be assessed at the selection stage

Bidder fails in challenge to the award of a contract by the ECJ

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • December 1 2011

An IT service provider, Computer Task Group Luxembourg (CTG), has failed in its attempts to take the ECJ to task for alleged failures to comply with procurement rules in relation to contracts for its call centre

New guidelines on green public procurement

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • December 1 2011

On 25 October 2011, the European Commission published, “Buying Green!” a revised handbook on how to take into account environmental protection characteristics in public procurement

Local authority has a duty to act fairly in below threshold tender

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 1 2011

The Scottish Court of Session held in Sidey (2011 CSOH194), that Clackmannanshire Council owed a duty to bidders to evaluate tenders fairly and in accordance with its published procedure

Investigation into Czech military aircraft purchase closed

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • Czech Republic, European Union
  • -
  • December 1 2011

The European Commission has decided not to take an action before the ECJ following agreement by the Czech authorities that in future, they will publish defence contracts and limit use of the defence exclusion

High Court refuses judicial review of a decision to reject an incomplete tender

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 10 2011

On 27 October 2011, the High Court, in Hossacks v The Legal Services Commission, declined an application for judicial review of a decision to reject an incomplete and erroneous tender

Failure to award a contract for additional urban planning services breaches procurement rules

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Greece
  • -
  • November 10 2011

The ECJ ruled in case C-60110 that failure by Greek local authorities to open a new tender process for additional urban planning services amounted to a breach of the procurement rules

Software tender discriminatory and failed to permit reliance on sub-contractor’s experience

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Greece
  • -
  • November 10 2011

A contract for provision of IT services for the Greek Social Security Foundation has come under Commission scrutiny following complaints of discrimination and unfair treatment

Commission publishes guidance on the application of procurement law to public-public cooperation

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • October 21 2011

In response to a long-running debate over the application of the public procurement rules to various forms of public co-operation, the European Commission recently published new guidance