John ME Lyden
March 2003
A paper based on a talk given to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law and the Society of Chartered Surveyors in County Cork, Ireland on 25th November 2002.
The EU procurement regime - Common law decisions- CONDOC - Conclusion.
The paper gives a brief overview of the EU procedures and the Directives that must be followed where a project is financed by the European Union in whole or in part. It considers procedures under the Works Directive for different kinds of contract, PIN notices, open, restricted, and negotiated procedures, the evaluation of tenders and award criteria. It goes on to look at a number of Irish, English and other common law decisions (including Harmon CFEM Facades (UK) Ltd v House of Commons). It then looks at the Irish Department of the Environment's standard set of instructions to tenderers, CONDOC.
The author: John M E Lyden FICS, FSCS, MIN, MCIArb, MEWI is a construction contract consultant, arbitrator, chartered quantity surveyor and mediator based in County Cork in Ireland.
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