This paper provides a critical analysis of the new operating model for NHS procurement that is being implemented in 2018 (the ‘NOM’). The NOM is expected to generate significant savings through centralised procurement and strategic supply chain management, which can then be dedicated to...

The creation of central purchasing bodies (CPBs) sought to generate administrative efficiencies and to aggregate public demand to enable the exercise of buying power capable of delivering better value for money and an opportunity for strategic procurement steering. However, CPB activity can have...

This paper analyzes the rules and administrative practice concerning the selection, weighting and application of award criteria in public procurement procedures under Spanish law. It also touches upon the issue of challenges against award decisions, and the screening of abnormally low bids after...

This paper indentifies the two-dimensional relationship that procurement and competition keep. From a ‘market’ perspective, public procurement needs to take place in an environment free from collusion between tenderers, or bid rigging. Public buyers only can achieve value for money if...

This paper offers some reflections on the position advanced by the EFTA Court that a simple breach of EU public procurement law is in itself sufficient to trigger the contracting authority's liability in damages (Fosen-Linjen). I argue that this position is flawed because it deviates from...

In this short paper, I reflect on the way in which digitalisation can foster more sustainable procurement in the EU context. I stress the sine qua non importance of building an enabling data architecture and point at areas for further research

This paper assesses the risks, rationale and justification for the rules on centralisation and aggregation of public procurement in Directive 2014/24. The paper explores the justifications advanced for the aggregation of purchasing and the countervailing risks it generates. In both cases, it...

This chapter takes a comparative view on the rules applicable to the exclusion of economic operators from public procurement procedures covered by the EU rules. It focuses on seven Member States (France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom) and in their law,...

Collaborative public procurement has been gaining traction in recent years and could be considered at the spearhead of public procurement reform and innovation. The 2014 reform of the EU public procurement rules (mainly Directive 2014/24) has expanded the tool-kit available to contracting...

In this study we provide an up-to-date assessment of situations in which universities are bound by public procurement rules, as well as the combined changes that market-based university financing mechanisms can bring about in relation to the regulation of university procurement and to the...