Special Public Procurement Rules And Amendment To The Public Contracts Code

Portugal has just enacted Law no. 30/2021, of 21 May, ("Law 30/2021") which approves special public procurement measures, amends the Public Contracts Code ("PCC"), amends the Process Code in the Administrative Courts, and the rules applicable to the creation, organization, and operation of central purchasing bodies.

This Law is intended to facilitate the procedures for awarding contracts for the execution of the Recovery and Resilience Plan ("RRP") recently presented by the Government to the European Commission.

Special public procurement measures

One of the features of Law 30/2021 is the new simplified pre-contractual procedures, which are different from the standard awarding procedures foreseen in the PCC. These simplified procedures may be used when the contract to be awarded: