More than 500 participants were changes of procurement law reform on IT obtaining INFORA Conference in the heart of Berlin / Cologne, 07.10.2009 – the IT procurement public administration continuously poses significant challenges. This in turn showed great interest in the 5th symposium on this topic conducted by INFORA GmbH in Berlin. Content, in particular the changes of the third stage of the procurement law reform at the Centre of the discussion were on this year’s event with 25 exhibitors. Klaus-Peter Tiedtke, Director of the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, has the diverse challenges for public buyers already in his opening speech. Rudolf Ley in a partly amusing designed review by the Federal Ministry for environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety gave a vivid picture of the roots of the public procurement law as well as the decades of reforms and changes which this area of law has been and still is. The current Effects of the changes of public procurement law were highlighted on the one hand closer 1.0 and the implications for the practice of the entities on the Symposium in the minds of the just published UfAB V version. On the other hand they were motivated as well critically as tactically in the lecture of Prof. Dr.
Ralf Leinemann from legal point of view overlooking the legal protection scrutinized. Much discussion evoked the idea of planned new regulations of the VOL/A by Michael whetstone Walker of the Federal Ministry of Economics and technology at the INFORA event. So, in particular the arrangements for establishing Los participants appeared very questionable. They emphasized that they were grateful for clearer rules of execution than is the case today with the VOL/A amended during 2006. The Panel presentations focused on in addition to the legal issues of the public procurement law reform also topics from the professional perspective of the users of IT purchasing.
