Jan 31, 2022 | Blog, Jean-Anne Young, Kerri Crossen, Procurement
Key Contacts: Kerri Crossen – Partner | Jean-Anne Young – Senior Associate In a reversal of the decision of the High Court, the Court of Appeal provides a highly reasoned judgment favouring maintaining the automatic suspension in this case. As in most...
Jan 12, 2022 | Angelyn Rowan, Blog, Construction, Kerri Crossen, Patrick Kane, Procurement
Key Contacts: Angelyn Rowan – Partner | Kerri Corssen – Partner | Patrick Kane – Senior Associate On 7 January 2022, the Office of Government Procurement (the “OGP”) issued a suite of interim amendments to the Capital Works Management Framework...
Nov 26, 2021 | Blog, Construction, Procurement, Show all
On 24 November 2021, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath published a guidance note announcing “interim measures” to address the increase in construction materials costs faced by tenderers in public works contracts. Our previous article on...
Nov 22, 2021 | Blog, Procurement, Show all, Technology
Irish contracting authorities are increasingly looking to cloud services as possible solutions to their IT needs. Cloud IT services often present a number of clear benefits to the public sector: more attractive pricing models (with the ability to scale up and down as...
Nov 15, 2021 | Blog, Kerri Crossen, Patrick Kane, Procurement
Key Contacts: Kerri Crossen – Partner | Patrick Kane – Senior Associate On 10 November 2021, the European Commission issued the revised procurement thresholds which will apply to public bodies and utilities from 1 January 2022. The thresholds have...
Oct 11, 2021 | Blog, Procurement, Show all
In its judgment of 17 June 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) found that contracting authorities are obliged to indicate at the outset the maximum estimated quantity and value of the goods and services to be supplied under a framework....