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Incoterms

  - Incoterms, widely-used terms of sale, are a set of 11 internationally recognized rules which define the responsibilities of sellers and buyers. Incoterms specify who is responsible for paying for and managing the shipment, insurance, documentation, customs clearance, and other logistical activities. 

 - Incoterms® rules

"The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires." - Joseph Conrad (1899); Heart of Darkness

Amateurs argue tactics, professionals argue logistics - aphorism from the military.

Project Procurement

 - How Big Things Get Done, The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration, by Bent Flyvbjerg with Dan Gardner
 - Built to Fail, why construction projects take so long, cost too much, and how to fix it., by Todd R. Zabelle
 - The Lean Six Sigma Black belt handbook, tools and methods for process acceleration - Frank Voehl, H. James Harringto, Chuck Mignosa, Rich Charron
 - The Procurement Models Handbook, by Andrea Cordell and Ian Thompson

 - The Purchasing Chessboard, 64 methods to reduce costs and increase value with suppliers, by Chistian Schuh, Joseph L. Raudabaugh, Robert Kromoser, Michael F. Strohmer, Alenka Triplat, Jim Pearce
 - Profit from procurement, add 30% to your bottom line by breaking down silos – Alex Klein
 - A. T. Kearney's Seven Steps for Strategic Sourcing

 - BS ISO 22058:2022 - Construction procurement. Guidance on strategy and tactics
 - THE CONSTRUCTION PLAYBOOK Government Guidance on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes
 - Public Procurement Rules of the Road Navigating Public Tendering in Ireland and Northern Ireland a €90 Billion Market, Peter Brennan and Joanne Gillen, ISBN 9780993171673

"A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell."- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Public Procurement Laws, Regulations and Guidance - Europe

 - 1971/305/EEC - Procedures for award of public WORKS contracts
 - 1977/62/EEC - Procedures for Award of Public SUPPLY Contracts
 - 1977/249/EEC - To facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services
 - 1980/767/EEC - Procedures for Supply Contracts
 - 1988/295/EEC - Public Supply Contracts, Amends 1977/62/EEC
 - 1989/440/EEC - Public Works Contracts, Amends 1971/305/EEC
 - 1989/665/EEC - Review procedures Public Works and Supply
 - 1990/531/EEC - Procurement Water, Energy, Transport
 - 1992/13/EEC - Procurement Procedures, Water, energy, transport, telecom
 - 1992/50/EEC - Procurement Procedures, Public Service Contracts
 - 2001/23/EC - Employees Rights etc.
 - 2195/2002 - Commission Regulation - Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
 - 2004/18/EC - procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts
 - 2005/36/EC - Recognition of professional qualifications
 - 2007/66/EEC - Improving the effectiveness of review procedures concerning the award of public contracts
 - 213/2008 - Commission Regulation - Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) amendment/revisions (Category 12)
 - 2009/81/EC - Works, Services, Goods - defence and security
 - 2009/138/EC - Insurance and Reinsurance
 - 2014/910 - electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC
 - 2014/23/EU - Concession Contracts
 - 2014/24/EC - 2014 EU Directive on Public Procurement
 - 2014/25/EU - Water, energy, transport, postal, repeals 2004/17/EC
 - 2014/833/EU - Restrictive Measures, Russia
 - 2022/576/EU - Restrictive Measures, Russia - amends 2014/833
 - 2022/1031 - International Procurement Instrument (IPI)
 - 2022/2560 - Foreign subsidies distorting the internal market (FSR)
 - 2023/1441 - Regulations for 2022/2560 - FS-PP in accordance with the FSR Annex and Suitability Assessment Questionnaire Page on CWMF

Public Procurement Laws, Regulations, Guidance - Ireland

Irish Legislation/Regulations/Guidance

 - SI No. 22/1995 - Ethics in Public Office Act 1995
 - SI No. 35/2001 - Ethics in Public Office Act 2001

 - SI No. 14/2002 - Competition Act, 2002
 - SI No. 131/2003 - European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003
 - SI No. 329/2006 - Award of Public Authorities' Contracts Regulations 2006
 - SI No. 50/2007 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Regulations 2007
 - SI No. 130/2010 - Public Authorities' Contracts Review Procedures Regulations 2010
 - SI No. 131/2010 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Review Procedures Regulations 2010
 - S.I. No. 151/2011 - European Union (Energy Efficient Public Procurement) Regulations 2011
 - SI No. 62/2012 - European Union (Award of Contracts relating to Defence and Security) Regulations 2012
 - SI No. 580/2012 - Late Payment in Commercial Transactions Regulations 2012
 - SI No. 30/2014 - Freedom of Information Act 2014
 - SI No. 192/2015 - Public Authorities' Contracts Review Procedures Amendment Regulations 2015
 - SI No. 193/2015 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Review Procedures Amendment Regulations 2015
 - SI No. 284/2016 - Award of Public Authority Contracts Regulations 2016
 - SI No. 286/2016 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Regulations 2016
 - S.I. No. 646/2016 - European Union (Energy Efficiency) (Amendment) Regulations 2016.
 - SI No. 203/2017 - Award of Concession Contracts Regulations 2017
 - SI No. 326/2017 - European Union (Award of Concession Contracts) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2017
 - SI No. 327/2017 - European Communities (Public Authorities' Contracts) (Review Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
 - SI No. 234/2018 - Rules of the Superior Courts (Review of the Award of Public Contracts) 2018

Circulars

 - Circular 40/2002: Public Procurement Guidelines – revision of existing procedures for approval of certain contracts
 - Circular 33/2006: Construction Procurement Reform – public works projects and engagement and payment of construction consultants
 - Circular 4/2008: Construction Procurement Reform – public works projects and engagement and payment of construction consultants
 - Circular 6/2010: Construction Procurement Reform – The new capital works management framework
 - Circular 7/2010: Construction Procurement Reform - Construction Contracts and Conditions of Engagement Approval
 - Circular 10/2010: Facilitating SME Participation in Public Procurement
 - Circular 7/2013: Construction Procurement Reform - Construction Performance Bonds
 - Circular 10/2014: Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement
 - Circular 1/2016: Construction Procurement - Procurement of Public Works Contracts
 - Circular 8/2018: Construction Procurement Reform - Sectoral Employment Orders and Comparative Cost of Tender Exercise
 - Circular 10/2018: Construction Procurement Reform - Amend Thresholds for CF6
 - Circular 20/2019: Environmental and Social Considerations
 - Circular 24/2019: Update for Public Spending Code (PSC), Use of PPPs, etc.
 - Circular 5/2022: Construction Procurement Reform: Professional Indemnity on Public Works Contracts
 - Circular 5/2023: Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement - Thresholds, etc.
 - Circular 9/2024: Reporting on the Use of Centralised Arrangements

Thresholds

 - Public Procurement Thresholds – 11 December 2023
 - Revision of EU Thresholds applicable from 1 January 2024

Other Procurement Links

 - Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF)
 - Public Supply of Goods and Services, Request for Tender and Contracts Templates

 - Green Public Procurement (GPP)
 - Code of Practice on the Governance of State Bodies (2016) 

 - Buyer Zone - Irish Government Procurement

- Herbots Standstill Calculator

Public Procurement - United Nations

 - UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement 

"Everytime you spend money, you cast a vote for the type of world you want" - Anna Lappe (2003)

Other Info, News, and Updates

 - Update to Guidance Notes 1.6 and 1.7 from the OGP regarding appointment of consultant services in public procurement. 
 - Minor amendments to current CWMF documents
 - Public Procurement During Emergencies; an Expert Report for the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry, by Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells (How to Crack a Nut).
 - Guidance and Tool to Support New Fee Mechanism for inflation adjustment in Public Contracts published.
 - Use of Agreed Rules of Measurement (ARM) 5 becomes mandatory in Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) in 2025: Also note here SCSI ARM 5; and Construction Industry Federation (CIF) note here.
 - Change to Collateral Warranties for Sub-Contractors by the Office of Government Procurement for Publicly Procured documents.
 - New Guide for use of PW-CF2 Public Works Contract for Building Works Designed by the Contractor issued by The Housing Agency. More info available here.