* Challenges for NSBs and public authorities for referencing standards in public procurement by Soren Jensen ( Director, Dan Sense, Denmark)*
Referencing of recognized European or International standards in the technical specifications in public procurement is no easy task. Adding to that, that only a few percent of contracting authorities actually know how to correctly reference standards, even though three out of four possible ways of developing technical specifications in Europe requires detailed knowledge about on the use of standards, the EU still faces a huge challenge in creating simple, transparent, effective, and documentable professional technical specifications in public procurement beneficial for the contracting authority as well as for bidders.
Soren Jensen is an Environmental engineer and owner of the Danish consultant company DanSense. Amongst others, he conduct training of national central authorities as well as local contracting authorities in Europe on referencing of standards in technical specifications according to the European Public procurement directive, Article 42 and others. As consultant, he also wrote the European guide on referencing of standards in public procurement, funded by the European Commission and including several national standardisation bodies in the development.
He graduated from the Danish Technical University and holds a Master´s degree in Environmental Management. He has been working with reducing environmental impacts, sustainable development and public procurement for 36 years, and has profound experiences within the public as well as private sector.
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