EU PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BID DATABASE SHOULD BE STREAMLINED, SAYS REVIEW
February 1st, 2013
A EUROPEAN Commission review has recommended streamlining a system listing and indexing public procurement tenders from all 27 European Union (EU) member states. The EU’s ‘common procurement vocabulary’ currently has 9,454 codes structured in a five levels, whose eight digits and attached wording describe a contract’s works, supplies or services, enabling bidders to check what jobs are available. Brussels suggests reducing number of codes and scrapping a supplementary descriptive vocabulary, among other improvements. ...
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