Examples of using Other procurement methods in English and their translations into Russian
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Tendering proceedings had been addressed in the 1994 text in far greater detail than other procurement methods.
Some information required to be provided for other procurement methods is not appropriate in the context of ERAs, and so does not appear in paragraph 1.
It was noted that the same approach should be followed in describing other procurement methods in the Model Law.
A question was raised about the impact of these provisions on other procurement methods, in particular whether the absence of similarly explicit provisions in other procurement methods would imply that material changes were permitted.
Anonymity: the maintenance of anonymity is critical if there are not to be higher risks of collusion in ERAs than in other procurement methods.
The acting Chairperson said that that was true in the case of tenders, butthe Model Law covered other procurement methods involving several stages, such as negotiations where the price was subject to scrutiny.
The maintenance of anonymity is therefore critical to mitigate the risks of collusion in ERAs, so thatthey are no higher than in other procurement methods.
First, services and other procurement methods are procedurally similar, if not identical: the main difference is the extent to which the skills and experience of individuals providing the subject matter of the procurement can be taken into account.
It was the Working Group's understanding that ERAs could be used in other procurement methods as well as tendering proceedings.
To shorten the title of the article, and to make the relevant safeguards of article 47 applicable, mutatis mutandis,to ERAs used as a phase in other procurement methods.
The risk of collusion may nevertheless be present even in ERAs especially when they are used as a phase in other procurement methods or preceded by off-line examination or evaluation of initial bids.
It was observed that there were two systems of ERAs in current use: those that treated ERAs as a procurement method itself, andthose that treated ERAs as an optional phase in other procurement methods.
The procurement regulations must call for more detailed planning than in other procurement methods, in view of the need to establish a mathematical formula to select the winner and prepare detailed rules for conducting the auction.
It was further suggested that, in order to achieve even broader transparency,such a publication requirement should be extended to other procurement methods as well.
First, the proposed proviso that single-source procurement would be justified only where other procurement methods were not appropriate meant that the reference to the commercial viability of the research and development concerned was superfluous.
The Guidelines also, with the reference to the discussions in the UNCITRAL Working Group, adopted the approach of treating ERAs as a procurement method in itself,rather than an optional phase in other procurement methods.
Paragraph(4) prohibits negotiations after BAFOs were submitted,so as to conform the competitive negotiations to equivalent stages in other procurement methods and to ensure the fair, equal and equitable treatment of suppliers or contractors.
It has also been noted that although the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law does not allow procuring entities to restrict access to procurement to suppliers registered on lists(i.e. mandatory lists), that practice, while not suitable for open tendering,may be efficient in relation to other procurement methods.
All procurements estimated to have a cost of Euro40,000 ormore are formally invited through the open competitive procurement method(unless other procurement methods are validly applied) and are part of the centralized bidding system.
In other procurement methods(restricted tendering under article 45, request for quotations under article 46, competitive negotiations under article 51 and single-source procurement under article 52), direct solicitation, which involves the issue of the invitation to participate in the procurement proceedings to suppliers or contractors identified by the procuring entity, is an inherent feature of the procurement method. .
Concerns were also raised about requiring a higher-level approval in articles 27 and27 bis procurement methods but not in other procurement methods to be used as exceptions to open tendering.
The limited exceptions to international solicitation are those that apply to other procurement methods requiring open solicitation and are listed in article 32(4) domestic procurement in accordance with article 8 and cases of low-value procurement. .
The use of ERAs would be subject to certain conditions, andprocedural rules would be applicable both to those that were a phase in other procurement methods and to those that were a stand-alone procurement method. .
Having completed its review of the procedures involved in the special method of procurement of services,the Commission reviewed further the manner in which the special method should be presented in relation to the other procurement methods in the Model Law.
Although both competitive negotiations and single-source procurement are considered to provide less competition(as well as objectivity and transparency) than other procurement methods, it is clear that competition is to some degree present in competitive negotiations, and is essentially absent in single-source.
In pondering the above question, the Commission noted that the Working Group had considered, but had not been in a position to agree on, possible approaches other than the one embodied in the current draft, which made available for the procurement of services not only the proceduresin chapter IV bis, but also the other procurement methods, in particular those referred to in article 17.
The risk of collusion may nevertheless be present even in electronic reverse auctions,especially when they are used as a phase in other procurement methods or preceded by offline examination or evaluation of initial bids(for the relevant discussion, see the Introduction to chapter VI in part II of this Guide);
The alternative proposal, which gained support, was to redraft the paragraph to ensure that any decision by the procuring entity to use a procurement method other than tendering and any decision not to use open solicitation in other procurement methods would have to be reflected and justified in the record.
The risk of collusion may nevertheless be present even in electronic reverse auctions,especially when they are used as a phase in other procurement methods or preceded by offline examination or evaluation of initial bids(for the relevant discussion, see the commentary to the articles of chapter VI of the 2011 Model Law[**hyperlink**]);
This is because, in accordance with article 57(1) of the Model Law,a closed framework agreement is to be awarded by means of open tendering proceedings unless resort to other procurement methods is justified under chapter II of the Model Law.