Complex changes to public procurement law made in response to current economic difficulties enter into force today.
The most important changes include:
- allowing economic operators to rely on the knowledge and experience of other businesses
- requiring contracting authorities to return bid bonds to economic operators once it has selected the best bid
- allowing insignificant changes to be made to agreements concluded under public procurement law
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The original publication date for this article was 22/12/2009.