Registration and morning coffee

Welcome

Moderator: Jan Telgen, Professor Emeritus of Public Procurement at University of Twente and and Co-Director of the Public Procurement Research Centre

Introduction to contract award methods

• General overview of existing methods
• Legal background
• Weights and scores

Coffee break

Criteria and scoring:

Practical exercises

• Defining award criteria
• Determining score graphs
• Interpolation

Lunch

Relative scoring

• Impact and consequences
• Avoiding negative consequences

Minimum quality levels

Coffee break

My favorite method:

Awarding on Value

• Theory
• Practical training

Q & A

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Registration and morning coffee

Welcome

Moderator: Marta Andhov, Ph.D. and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at University of Copenhagen

• What is a framework agreement?
• How long can framework agreements and contracts awarded on their basis last?

Coffee break

• How precisely must parties of a framework agreement be identified ?
• What does it mean that the framework agreement has a closed character, and what are the legal consequences of it?
• Can non-signatories of framework agreements still use them?

Lunch

What are the types of framework agreements and methods of call off award?

• Single supplier framework agreement
• Multi-supplier framework agreement
  • Direct award of call-offs contracts
  • Mini competition

Coffee break

• What are the challenges associated with the overall value of the framework agreement following the case C-216/17, Autorità Garante?
• Can you change a member of a framework agreement?

Q & A

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REGISTRERING OG MORGENKAFFE

SENESTE NYT FRA KFLU

I en spændende dialog bliver du grundigt opdateret på aktuelle skelsættende afgørelser og får bredt fortolkningsgrundlaget ud, så du får en solid forståelse for fortolkningen af vigtig retspraksis til brug for dit daglige arbejde. Undervejs i dialogen lægger vi op til debat og erfaringsudveksling.

De store udbudssager 2020/2021 bliver således taget under kærlig behandling med særligt fokus på faldgruber, tendenser og nyskabelser.

Tina Braad, Partner, Bech Bruun og Peter Dann Jørgensen, Partner, Two Birds

FROKOST

BAGATELREGLEN I UDBUDSLOVENS § 180 I PRAKSIS

Bagatelreglen har til formål at sikre en fleksibel og pragmatisk tilgang til mindre ændringer af kontrakter, ligesom den skal skabe klarhed omkring, hvornår bagatelagtige ændringer ikke kræver gennemførelse af en ny udbudsprocedure. Men selv om bagatelreglen umiddelbart fremstår klar og gennemsigtig, er der i praksis en række forhold, hvor det er ganske usikkert, hvordan reglen skal forstås. I oplægget sættes der fokus på disse uklarheder, spørgsmålene forsøges besvaret, ligesom der lægges op til debat. 

Asbjørn Dalum Andersen, Partner, Honoré, Fallesen & Andersen

KAFFEPAUSE

EVALUERING AF UDBUDSLOVEN

Programtekst kommer snart

Kenneth Skov Jensen, Head of Division og Rasmus Horskjær Nielsen, Chefkonsulent, Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen

KAFFEPAUSE

HENSYNSTAGEN TIL KØNSMÆSSIG LIGESTILLING I UDBUD

På trods af, at det er en erklæret strategi fra EU-kommissionen at der skal indføres 100 % kønsmæssig ligestilling i EU-landene, og selvom vi i Danmark har en ligestillingslov, der forpligter offentlige myndigheder til inden for deres område arbejde for ligestilling og indarbejde ligestilling i al planlægning og forvaltning, så indtænkes kønsmæssig ligestilling på ingen måde i dansk offentligt indkøb.

Hvorfor skal man inddrage hensyn til kønsmæssig ligestilling i offentlige indkøb?

Hvordan kan man inddrage hensyn til kønsmæssig ligestilling i forbindelse med offentligt indkøb?

Er der hindringer i udbudsloven for inddragelse af den slags hensyn?

Anja Piening, Administrerende direktør og Partner, NP Advokater ApS

FARVEL OG TAK FOR I DAG!

Welcome

Moderator:  Roxana Vornicu, Co-Managing Partner Sirbu & Vornicu Law Firm, Bucharest Romania and Research Associate King´s College London

Roxana Vornicu is a Managing Partner at a boutique law firm in Bucharest, Sirbu & Vornicu, dealing with procurement and construction law. She is an international academic having published scholarly works in the fields of public procurement law, EU law and administrative law. She currently holds a position of Research Associate at King´s College London, Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution. Whilst at King´s, Roxana deals with digital technologies in the field of construction law and procurement and contractual collaborative techniques.

An Introduction to BIM and the European status quo. Comparative lens on policies and initiatives aiming to foster the adoption of BIM in public procurement

Break

EU public procurement directives and regulations and BIM. Drafting and complying with the tender documentation in a BIM project

Lunch

BIM and construction contracts. From FIDIC to collaborative construction contractual techniques. A comparative assessment

Break

BIM and the sustainability agenda

Q & A

Than you for the day

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Morning coffee and registration

Introduction to the course and the program of the day

Moderator: Morten Munkgaard Møller, cand.merc. and Ph.D. in supply chain management, Associate Professor, Aalborg University, DK

What is category management? Where does it come from? What does the term cover?

+ Exercise

Short break

How to develop a category strategy? How to use Kraljic Portfolio Matrix as a starting tool?

+ Exercise

Lunch

The potential as well as the pitfalls of using category management

+ Exercise

Short break

How to implement category management?

+ Exercise

Project Charter – How to start category management in your own organization

+ Exercise

Summary of the day and goodbye

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Registration and morning coffee

Welcome to the conference

Chairman – Martin Trybus, Professor of European Law & Policy, Birmingham Law School, UK

Latest news from the European Commission and other key issues related to Public Procurement

Speaker to be announced

Coffee break

Speaker to be announced

Lunch

The interplay between competition based on quality and green award criteria

The speaker was called 2011 as an expert during the Heide Rühle strategy process when the ideas of the European Parliament on the procurement directives 2014 were forged. He will recall those ideas and demonstrate that the Swiss (new Federal Act on Public procurement [PPA] of 21 June 2019) behave perfectly European in this context.

Judge Marc Steiner, Swiss Federal Admini­strative Court, CH

Coffee break

Contract Management 

Public procurement organisations are obliged to manage their contracts in accordance with both administrative law and procurement law. Furhermore, the contracts must be optimally managed from both a commercial and contractual point of view. These – sometimes conflicting – perspectives requires a thorough multidisciplinary analysis and dedicated processes and activities. Result: on average 2 % savings, better performance and public services and improved legal compliance.

Rene Franz Henschel, Professor, Aarhus University, DK

Making sustainability possible in public procurement. European examples of sustainable requirements 

Tim Stoffel, Project Manager, Global Nature Fund (GNF), DE

Coffee break

Green procurement – How to do it in real life

Nowadays, many public authorities have a procurement policy with visions and desires for more green and sustainable procurement. But how are the green strategies translated into specific requirements in call for tenders and purchasing of green products in the institutions. What barriers exist for green procurement? What are the opportunities in the market? And how can we ensure a match between the opportunities in the market and the requirements that are set? Learn about the Danish experiences with the implementation of green and sustainable procurement in real life.

Rikke Dreyer, Chief Consultant Public Procurement and Chairman of the Sustainable Procurement Forum, DK

Healthcare related procurement during the Covid-19 pandemic

Erik Gadman, Counsel, Gernandt & Danielsson, SE

End of conference Day 1 

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Registration and morning coffee

Welcome to the conference day 2

Chairman – Martin Trybus, Professor of European Law and Policy, Birmingham Law School, UK

New case law

Sue Arrowsmith, Achilles Professor, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK

Where are all the bids? Analysing empirical evidence from Sweden and Finland

According to the European Commission public procurement relies on open competition to deliver the best value for public money. This competitive process is either not present or it is losing intensity in the EU. Between 2006 and 2016, the number of tenders with only one bid has grown from 17% to 30%. The average number of offers per tender fell from five to three in the same period. In Finland and Sweden there seems to be a serious lack of competition with a median number of actual bidders of only two. This means that for more than half of the auctions, there are either no bidders, a monopoly bidder or duopoly bidders. The lack of competition is an issue especially in small municipalities, but all the different types of contracting authorities and regions face the same challenge, as do almost all industries. What are the reasons for low amounts of bids? Can contracting authorities improve the situation somehow? This presentation is based on two studies made on the topic with Finnish and Swedish procurement data and interviews with public procurement experts in both countries.

Kirsi-Maria Halonen, Adjunct Prof., University of Lapland, FI

The internal appeal procedure under the ECB procurement rules  

• The European Central Bank (ECB) as a supranational organisation of the European Union has the autonomous power to lay down rules for its internal organisation and administration.
• Overview of the ECB procurement rules.
• Remedies and internal appeal procedure of the ECB.

Dr. Isabell Koepfer LL.M., Lead Legal Counsel, Directorate General Legal Services, European Central Bank (ECB)

Coffee break

COVID-19 and procurement

Sue Arrowsmith, Achilles Professor, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK

Lunch

Topic to be announced soon

Sue Arrowsmith, Achilles Professor, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK

Disclosure of award criteria and evaluation models 

Sending and Melson will focus on the need for flexibility as regards award criteria and evaluation models, in particular in complex procurements where the contracting authority does not have sufficient knowledge about what to expect from the market. When will the award criteria, the weighting and the evaluation model have to be finalized, what has to be disclosed, which leeway does the contracting authority have and what are the possibilities for later changes/adjustments/corrections?

Christina Melson, Senior lawyer, Haavind and Anne Hesjedal Sending, Partner, Haavind, NO

Coffee break

Public Procurement and Security of Information in Practice 

Security of information is paramount in a vast number of procurement projects across various sectors. For the contracting authority, this often begs the question – how can we be sure that the procurement process results in a partner that has the capacity, integrity and product to ensure that the security interests at stake are not compromised? While certain contracts in this field will be exempt from the procurement rules, others will remain subject to them. Ippolito and Rytter will focus in particular on the latter category and examine a number of different legal challenges and questions that may arise, including

• How the contracting authority/entity can ensure that both tenderers, their products and their subcontractors / supply-chain are sufficiently scrutinised before they are entrusted with a sensitive contract,
• What the scope is of the relevant grounds for exclusion in the directives and how they may be exercised in practice, and
• What the legal position is when it comes to suppliers and products from third countries.

Andreas Estrup Ippolito, Partner, Poul Schmith / Kammeradvokaten, DK og Niels Rytter, Partner, Poul Schmith / Kammeradvokaten, DK 

Joint cross-border public procurement in the security sector – introducing iProcureNet

The H2020 project iProcureNet aims to create an ecosystem of procurers, prescribers, legal advisors and other key stakeholders of in the field of security procurement, to share procurement trends and needs, and open pathways for joint procurement. See more at https://www.iprocurenet.eu/ and the initial legal findings concerning joint cross-border procurement under EU law. A promising tool to promote innovation in cross-border collaboration, joint cross-border procurement can present certain legal challenges, such as the choice of law issues, difficulties related to review proceedings and particularities relating to contract performance stage.

Dr. Iur Mari Ann Simovart, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Tartu, Estonia, EE

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Registrering og morgenkaffe

Velkomst

Nohrcon

Kvalifikasjonskrav – evaluering av tilbydernes kvalifikasjoner og rett til avklaring og suppleringer av dokumentasjon

Marianne H. Dragsten, partner i Vaar Advokat AS

Vilkåret om gjensidig bebyrdende avtale – typetilfeller og fallgruver

Ronny Rosenvold, assosiert partner i Kluge Advokatfirma AS

Kaffepause

Kan oppdragsgiver stole på tilbudene?

Kristian Jåtog Trygstad, partner i Advokatfirmaet Mageli ANS

Lunsj

Det vanskelige valget – kan denne feilen rettes innen rammen av gjeldende konkurranse eller må konkurransen avlyses?

Trine Friberg, partner i Wahl-Larsen Advokatfirma AS

Krav, skal-krav, minstekrav og absolutte krav i offentlige anskaffelser

Silje Grimseth Ullebust, partner i Advokatfirmaet Grette AS

Kaffepause

De nyeste og mest interessante KOFA-avgjørelsene

Kristian Jåtog Trygstad, partner i Advokatfirmaet Mageli ANS

Avslutning

Vi forbeholder oss retten til å gjøre endringer

Registration and morning coffee

Welcome & an introduction to procuretech

Chairman — Carina Risvig Hamer, PhD and Assistant Professor at University of Southern Denmark, DK

Blockchain and public procurement: Aspects of integrity, transparency, efficiency and security of data in procuerement

Aris Georgopoulos, Asst. Professor in European and Public Law – Advocate at University of Nottingham, UK

Implementation of GDPR in procurement — Challenges and lessons learned from Norway

Espen Bakjord, Partner at Law Firm Vaar, NO

Electronic auctions in procurement and their impact on competition

Kristoffer Sällfors, Expert in public procurement at Law Firm Vinge, SE

Procurement of public cloud services in the Nordic countries

The relationship between the contract chosen by the contracting authority and standard terms and conditions for the public cloud services.

Espen Bakjord, Partner at Law Firm Vaar, NO

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