Three new courses for buyers and bidders on public procurement

To ensure equal access for all interested parties, the courses will be conducted in a stream. Registration is started for the first courses of the School, which will be taught this winter in cooperation with Starfsmennt.

Basic courses in public procurement

November 6 and 14

• Nov 6 - 9-12 (Videos made available)

• Nov 14 - 10-12 (Teams discussion)

The course will discuss public procurement, especially tendering, as a way to establish a contract between public entities and companies. It is an initial course where the main basics will be explained. The main laws and policies, the principles of the law on public procurement, the scope of the law and how to evaluate whether a procurement is a contract. Then it will be examined what requirements can be made in the contract documents and how to evaluate the submitted tenders, in particular when an offer is considered valid and when additional information can be requested.

Key elements of the course:

• Public procurement objectives, key laws and policies

• Principles of Public Procurement Law

• Scope of the Public Procurement Act and when the obligation to tender is created

• Technical specifications, qualifications, selection criteria and contractual requirements

• Evaluation and selection of tenders

Teacher: Stanley Örn Axelsson
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Framework public procurement contracts

December 7th At 9-12pm

The course will discuss framework contracts as a procurement technique for public procurement, what characteristics such contracts have, what rules apply to their construction and how to execute procurement on their basis.

Key elements of the course:

• Framework contracts as procurement techniques

• Conclusion of a framework agreement

• Purchases within a framework contract

Teacher: Stanley Örn Axelsson
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Sustainable procurement

January 18th At 9-12pm

The concept of sustainability will be discussed from the perspective of the Public Procurement Act no. 120/2016 and how public entities should conduct their work when formulating and implementing sustainability requirements in contract documents. Special emphasis will be placed on the conditions that sustainability requirements must meet according to the Act and to that end examples of the case law of the European Court of Justice will be used.

The main components of the course are:

• Benefits and challenges

• Implementing sustainability in contract documents

• Strategic procurement approach to sustainability

Teacher: Brynjólfur Sigurðsson
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