Op 9 september 2026 is door de Europese Commissie (EC) een ‘Proposal
for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL’ (COM(2026) 590
final) gepubliceerd:
Het gaat om een Voorstel voor een ‘Public Procurement Act’, in dit geval een EU-verordening en dus geen EU-richtlijn, die de bestaande Richtlijnen 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU en 2014/25/EU herroept en bepaalde EU-verordeningen en EU-richtlijnen wijzigt.
Volgens artikel 1 lid 1 van het Voorstel geldt:
This Regulation establishes rules on public contracts
for works, supplies or services and concessions for works or services procured
by one or more public buyers from one or more economic operators, the value of
which is equal to or greater than the thresholds established in Article 2.
Het gaat dus nog steeds om (de aankoop middels) ‘overheidsopdrachten’, ‘ondernemers’ en ‘aanbestedende diensten’.
Het voorstel presenteert een openbare aanbestedingsprocedure met mogelijkheid van onderhandeling, de ‘open procedure’.
Zie daartoe artikel 34 (‘Launch and conduct of the open procedure’) van het Voorstel:
1. In
the open procedure, public buyers shall make their procurement needs known
through a public summary of competition published pursuant to Article 110
setting out whether and which selection criteria apply, and whether they intend
to negotiate.
2. Any
interested economic operator may express its interest and submit a tender
(‘first tender’) using the electronic eligibility service referred to in
Article 133. The expression of interest shall be submitted together with a
tender specifying in particular how the economic operator proposes to address
the needs of the public buyer. The deadline for receiving expressions of
interest with tenders shall be no less than 20 days from the publication of the
public summary of competition.
3. Where
a public buyer has indicated that it intends not to negotiate,
it shall award the contract in accordance with Article 98 to one or more
economic operators that are not in a situation of exclusion, and, where
applicable, fulfil the selection criteria set pursuant to Article 27. The
contract shall be awarded on the basis of the first tenders submitted pursuant
to paragraph 2.
4. Where
the public buyer has indicated that it intends to negotiate, it shall send an
invitation to negotiate to all interested economic operators that are not in a
situation of exclusion, and, where applicable, that fulfil the selection
criteria set pursuant to Article 27.
5. Negotiations
shall be carried out in accordance with Article 33. Where the public buyer has
decided to conclude the negotiations and has invited each of the remaining
economic operators to submit a final tender, the contract shall be awarded on
the basis of those final tenders.
6. Public
buyers may decide not to negotiate, despite having indicated their intention to
do so, but instead proceed to award the contract on the basis of the first
tenders, provided that they have reserved the possibility of doing so in the
public summary of competition.
Wat zo’n mogelijkheid tot onderhandelen (‘negotiate’) praktisch waard is voor hen die minder regels, versimpeling, flexibilisering e.d. in het aanbestedingsrecht voorstaan, moet nog blijken.
Zie namelijk ook het bepaalde in artikel 33 (‘Conduct of negotiations’) van het Voorstel:
1. Public
buyers shall respect the principles of proportionality and equal treatment in
the conduct of negotiations and shall ensure that in any given round of
negotiations the number of solutions discussed allows for genuine competition.
Public buyers shall ensure that any disclosure of information during
negotiations does not affect the commercial interests of the economic operators
taking part in such negotiations.
2. Without
prejudice to other relevant Union legislation, public buyers may negotiate all
non-essential characteristics of the works, supplies and services intended for
purchase, which may include certain elements related, for instance to technical
merit, quantity, delivery conditions and other commercial aspects, but does not
include exclusion grounds, selection criteria and award criteria.
Public buyers shall clearly indicate in the public
summary of competition the characteristics of the works, supplies and services
that are not subject to negotiation. These indications shall be sufficiently
precise and comprehensive to circumscribe the subject-matter of the contract
and shall contain the essential conditions of the contract, on which economic
operators would legitimately rely in order to take the decision whether to
participate in the award procedure.
The negotiations shall not substantially alter the
subject-matter of the contract.
3. Public
buyers may conduct negotiations in one or more rounds. After each round, the
economic operators participating in the negotiations shall be invited to submit
a tender and public buyers may decide to reduce the number of participants
based on the award criteria set pursuant to Article 98.
Public buyers shall inform economic operators when a
new round of negotiations will start and whether or not they will be invited.
Public buyers shall inform all tenderers, whose tenders have not been
eliminated, of any changes to the specifications or changes to other parts of
the procurement detail as a result of the negotiations.
Public buyers shall provide sufficient time for
tenderers to modify and re-submit amended tenders, as appropriate. Economic
operators may submit revised tenders depending on the outcome of the
negotiations.
Where a public buyer has decided to conclude the
negotiations and proceed to the award of the contract, it shall invite each of
the remaining economic operators to submit a final tender.
Een eerste inschrijving, vooraf precies aangeven waarover niet wordt onderhandeld, slechts onderhandelen over niet wezenlijke kenmerken van de werken, leveren en diensten, zeker niet onderhandelen over de uitsluitingsgronden, geschiktheidseisen en gunningscriteria, toepassing van het beginsel van gelijke behandeling en het evenredigheidsbeginsel, voldoende lange termijnen om offertes aan te (kunnen) passen, en een definitieve inschrijving.
Onderhandelen op zijn ‘Europees’ (dus).
Lees over het Voorstel ook:
https://keesvandewater.blogspot.com/2026/09/wira-on-repeat-volgens-het-voorstel.html
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