On 31 March 2004 the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament adopted the Public Sector Procurement Directive, with a national implementation deadline of 31 January 2006. In common with earlier Community public sector procurement legislation, the new Directive seeks to ensure that...

Public procurement is one of the main cross-sectoral reforms that the Government of Lebanon committed to at the "Conférence économique pour le développement, par les réformes et avec lesentreprises" (CEDRE) held in Paris in April 2018, in order to improve fiscal governance and the qualityof...

The cost of building nine affordable housing projects in Los Angeles under the terms of a project labor agreement between the years 2008 and 2012 are compared to 121 affordable housing projects developed and built in the same time period and same area without project labor agreement...

Einerseits steigen vielerorts die Abwasserbeseitigungs- und Abfallentsorgungsgebühren. Andererseits existiert eine Grauzone im öffentlichen Preisrecht, die sich auf kommunale Gebühren auswirken kann. Indem sie mittelbare Auftragsverhältnisse schaffen, können die Gemeinden dem Verbraucher...

Project Labor Agreements (PLA's) on public projects are a "heads-we-win, tails-we-breakeven" proposition for the unions. At worst, from the point of view of the unions, a PLA modifies work rules that would have been modified anyway in the course of open bidding. At best, it preserves work rules...