Publication / Alexey Anischenko, Maria Rodich
The package adopted by the Belarusian Government on 31 March 2020 in connection with the consequences of COVID-19 included measures aimed at regulating legal aspects in the field of public procurement. Under the general rule,[1] the parties to a public procurement contract cannot change the following terms of the contract: the subject of public procurement […]
Difficult times do not justify careless decisions in public procurement, warns our public procurement law expert and senior associate Kadri Härginen. Read more in Estonian.
The outbreak of COVID-19 not only requires a public health response, but also has ramifications in the public procurement sphere. Although the crisis creates a multitude of risks and hurdles to procurement as we have been used to, public procurement legislation also offers several remedies which allow public purchases to be tailored for more turbulent […]
If contracting authorities have public procurements in progress today, which have been stalled due to the crisis and which can be delayed, it would be helpful for entrepreneurs if the public procurements already in progress did not stop says our senior associate Kadri Härginen. Read more in Estonian here.
We advised Lietuvos geležinkeliai ‒ the largest state-owned railway company in the Baltics ‒ on tender procedures and signing a purchase contract to electrify a major railway infrastructure corridor in Lithuania. Electrification will affect a strategically important railway line linking Klaipėda port, the main cargo and logistics centre in Lithuania, with Vilnius and Belarus. This […]
