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Report A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032 · 2024/2103(INI)
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- Amendment list A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032
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- 3 September 2025
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- 2024/2103(INI)
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Pablo Arias Echeverría, Javier Zarzalejos, Borja Giménez Larraz, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Tomáš Zdechovský, François-Xavier Bellamy, Željana Zovko, Siegfried Mureşan, Massimiliano Salini, Dimitris Tsiodras, Adina Vălean, Dirk Gotink, Ana Miguel Pedro, Georgios Aftias, Pascal Arimont, Peter Agius, Paulius Saudargas, Oliver Schenk, Laurent Castillo, Daniel Buda, Christophe Gomart, Davor Ivo Stier, Pekka Toveri, Regina Doherty, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Zala Tomašič, Andreas Schwab, Isabelle Le Callennec, Francisco José Millán Mon, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Dolors Montserrat, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Esther Herranz García, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Susana Solís Pérez, Gabriel Mato, Flavio Tosi, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Salvatore De Meo, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Esteban González Pons, Matej Tonin, Elena Nevado del Campo, Sebastião Bugalho
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment |
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| 37. Notes that awarding public contracts based solely on the lowest price might encourage unfair competition and that this is at the expense of quality, sustainability and social standards; insists that more contracts should be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio, through use of MEAT criteria, meaning that tenders should be evaluated not only on price but also on factors such as quality, regional impact or continuity of supply of complex and essential services; adds that non-price considerations should be given a substantial weight in the overall rating and final decision on the award of contracts; | 37. Notes that awarding public contracts based solely on the lowest price might encourage unfair competition and that this is at the expense of quality, sustainability and social standards; insists that more contracts should be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio, through use of MEAT criteria, meaning that tenders should be evaluated not only on price but also on factors such as quality, regional impact or continuity of supply of complex and essential services; adds that non-price considerations should be given a substantial weight in the overall rating and final decision on the award of contracts, especially for engineering services, which are essential to ensure high-quality, profitable projects in the long term, while protecting innovation and deterring the submission of abnormally low tenders; |
Pablo Arias Echeverría, Javier Zarzalejos, Borja Giménez Larraz, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Tomáš Zdechovský, François-Xavier Bellamy, Željana Zovko, Siegfried Mureşan, Massimiliano Salini, Dimitris Tsiodras, Adina Vălean, Dirk Gotink, Ana Miguel Pedro, Georgios Aftias, Pascal Arimont, Peter Agius, Paulius Saudargas, Oliver Schenk, Laurent Castillo, Daniel Buda, Christophe Gomart, Davor Ivo Stier, Pekka Toveri, Regina Doherty, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Zala Tomašič, Andreas Schwab, Isabelle Le Callennec, Francisco José Millán Mon, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Dolors Montserrat, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Esther Herranz García, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Susana Solís Pérez, Gabriel Mato, Flavio Tosi, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Salvatore De Meo, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Esteban González Pons, Matej Tonin, Elena Nevado del Campo, Sebastião Bugalho
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment |
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| 37. Notes that awarding public contracts based solely on the lowest price might encourage unfair competition and that this is at the expense of quality, sustainability and social standards; insists that more contracts should be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio, through use of MEAT criteria, meaning that tenders should be evaluated not only on price but also on factors such as quality, regional impact or continuity of supply of complex and essential services; adds that non-price considerations should be given a substantial weight in the overall rating and final decision on the award of contracts; | 37. Notes that awarding public contracts based solely on the lowest price might encourage unfair competition and that this is at the expense of quality, sustainability and social standards; insists that more contracts, especially for intellectual services, should be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio, through use of MEAT criteria, meaning that tenders should be evaluated not only on price but also on factors such as quality, regional impact or continuity of supply of complex and essential services; adds that non-price considerations should be given a substantial weight in the overall rating and final decision on the award of contracts; |
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European Parliament (2025). “A10-0147/31 - Amendment 31 - Pablo Arias Echeverría, Javier Zarzalejos, Borja Giménez Larraz, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Tomáš Zdechovský, François-Xavier Bellamy, Željana Zovko, Siegfried Mureşan, Massimiliano Salini, Dimitris Tsiodras, Adina Vălean, Dirk Gotink, Ana Miguel Pedro, Georgios Aftias, Pascal Arimont, Peter Agius, Paulius Saudargas, Oliver Schenk, Laurent Castillo, Daniel Buda, Christophe Gomart, Davor Ivo Stier, Pekka Toveri, Regina Doherty, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Zala Tomašič, Andreas Schwab, Isabelle Le Callennec, Francisco José Millán Mon, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Dolors Montserrat, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Esther Herranz García, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Susana Solís Pérez, Gabriel Mato, Flavio Tosi, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Salvatore De Meo, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Esteban González Pons, Matej Tonin, Elena Nevado del Campo, Sebastião Bugalho - Report A10-0147/2025 - Piotr Müller - Public procurement - (2024/2103(INI))”. Text, 3 September 2025. docId A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032, reference A10-0147/2025. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032 (CC BY 4.0).
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{A10-0147/31 - Amendment 31 - Pablo Arias Echeverría, Javier Zarzalejos, Borja Giménez Larraz, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Tomáš Zdechovský, François-Xavier Bellamy, Željana Zovko, Siegfried Mureşan, Massimiliano Salini, Dimitris Tsiodras, Adina Vălean, Dirk Gotink, Ana Miguel Pedro, Georgios Aftias, Pascal Arimont, Peter Agius, Paulius Saudargas, Oliver Schenk, Laurent Castillo, Daniel Buda, Christophe Gomart, Davor Ivo Stier, Pekka Toveri, Regina Doherty, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Zala Tomašič, Andreas Schwab, Isabelle Le Callennec, Francisco José Millán Mon, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Dolors Montserrat, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Esther Herranz García, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Susana Solís Pérez, Gabriel Mato, Flavio Tosi, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Salvatore De Meo, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Esteban González Pons, Matej Tonin, Elena Nevado del Campo, Sebastião Bugalho - Report A10-0147/2025 - Piotr Müller - Public procurement - (2024/2103(INI))}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-09-03},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId A-10-2025-0147-AM-031-032, reference A10-0147/2025. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
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