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access to the procurement procedure in question
on equal terms.
This method should be seen in contrast to action
taken "post-contract" when the award of the contract
has taken place, and it is no longer possible to
change the competition conditions that form the
basis for the selection of candidates and/or award
of the contract.
Chapter 3 contains the concluding remarks.
The full information concerning the Pilot Project
and the cross-border problem-solving method is
available on the project website: www.procurementsupport.com.
IV. Experiences gained from practical crossborder
cases
In Annex A to the report 26 practical cases considered
within the network co-operation of the Pilot
Project on Public Procurement are described. This
illustrates the effectiveness and flexibility of the
problem-solving method. It also reveals the limits
of the method and thereby demonstrates that the
network co-operation between national authorities
is supplementary to the formal review systems
1 .
In the following chapter 2 the experiences gained
from cross-border problem solving in practice
according to the method described is reported.
The most important characteristics of the method
are presented, and for each characteristic element
there is a reference to one or more concrete cases
listed in Annex A. Yet, many of the examples are
illustrating more than one of the highlighted characteristics
- due to their reflection of concrete,
practical situations.
1. Understood as the formal systems pursuant to the Remedies Directives
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