Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Identifying the Contracting Parties
3: Contracting Parties in the Utilities Sector
4: Defining the Contracts
5: Specifying the Purchaser's Requirements
6: Selecting Economic Operators
7: Contract Award Procedures
8: Procedural Requirements
9: Implementation and Enforcement
10: Procurement under the "Practical Guide"

About the Author

Peter Trepte is a barrister, working from London. He specialises in public procurement law and competition law. In the case of regulated procurement, he advises and represents public and private sector clients on the impact of national and EC procurement rules as well as on the application of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the effect on the procurement rules of the EC's preferential trade arrangements. He was a dispute panel member in the
only procurement case to reach the panel stage under the WTO's 1994 GPA. He has advised a number of developing countries worldwide on procurement policy and has drafted appropriate procurement rules. He
is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a mediator. He is also a member of DFID's panel of Procurement Fiduciary Risk, Anti-corruption and Capacity Building Specialists