The Green Book adopts the principle of Part A and Part B services being priority and non-priority services. Priority services are those which potentially affect trade between EU States. They may include architectural and engineering services. Non-priority services are more localised and may include catering services.<\/p>\n
Priority services are subject to the full terms of the Service Directive (above threshold). For non-priority services, information on contracts awarded is to be made available to the Commission.<\/p>\n
A 2010 Department of Finance Circular facilitating SME participation in public procurement required public bodies to offer contracts for supplies or services other than work-related services with a value of \u20ac25,000 or more to be advertised on e-tenders.gov.ie. The standard figure remains \u20ac50,000 for works.<\/p>\n
The open procedure rather than the restricted procedure should be used for supplies and general service requirements and general service procurement with an estimated value up to \u20ac125,000 and for works and work-related services up to \u20ac250,000. Accordingly, the open procedure should become the norm for advertised contracts up to these levels.<\/p>\n
Within the above thresholds, awarding authority should not seek documentary verification of credentials and capability, unless the bidder would be close to being deemed the winning bidder. This is by way of reduction of red tape and the burden of documentation on SMEs.<\/p>\n
The authorities are ready to be proportional in seeking things such as annual turnover or insurance cover. They are to encourage to seek dividing contracts into lots where this would be appropriate and practical without compromising efficiency and value for money.<\/p>\n\n
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Code of Practice The Code of Practice for Governance of State Bodies 2001 provides that competitive tendering should be the normal procedure in the procurement process of State bodies. Detailed procurement procedures set out in the Green Book in respect of competitive tendering should be applied. The guidelines provide that less formal procedures may be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}