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What the EU procurement scoreboard tells bidders
How often are contracts awarded on price alone, how long do decisions take, and how often is there only one bidder, country by country?
Procedures & timing
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Dated analysis of what the courts and the rules say, and what it changes for your bid.
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Our guides explain how a rule works and what to do about it. Insights are different: each one is dated and looks at a single judgment, a rule change or a question we have researched across the case law. Every insight names the guides it affects, and those guides are updated when the analysis changes what a bidder should do.
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Abnormally low tenders in the EU case law
My price has been questioned, or the winner's price looks too low. What have the EU courts said the buyer must do?
Pricing
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What the proposed Public Procurement Act would change
The Commission wants to replace the 2014 Directives with a Regulation. What would change for my bids, and which rules apply to the tenders I'm bidding for now?
Procedures & timing
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When can experience earn points in an EU tender?
The documents score "the team". Does that mean my company's track record, my people's CVs, or both?
Evaluation & award
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Scoring higher wages: what Cā210/24 allows
The documents give points for paying staff above the collective agreement. Is that allowed, and how should I price it?
Evaluation & award
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Must the buyer publish its scoring formula?
Ten years after Dimarso, can a buyer still keep the price formula to itself, and what can you do about it?
Evaluation & award
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Self-cleaning: what the Court has said
An exclusion ground applies to us, but we have fixed the problem. When and how do we show it, and what must the buyer do?
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