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 briefly reviews the need for the Proposed Concessions Directive and the opportunity of the proposal; explores the logic and main aspects of the Proposed Concessions Directive, particularly regarding its more ‘concession-specific' rules on their economic balance; and offers some...

The recent ECJ Judgment in case C-124/10 P Commission v Électricité de France (EDF) has clarified an important point in EU State aid law that bears attention: the ‘private investor' test is not an exception, but the general test that the Commission must apply. This paper critically appraises...

This paper focuses on the recent novelties introduced by the ‘Almunia' Package in the regulation of activities at the intersection of the EU rules on State aid, public procurement and the financing of SGEIs. Taking the uncertainties left by the fourth Altmark condition as the point of...

The relationship between public procurement and State aid control rules had been controversial for a long time. However, a growing academic consensus and, more significantly, the official position of the European Commission, ruled out that the award of a public contract can amount to the grant...

This paper attempts a concise comparison of the rules applicable to the rejection of abnormally low and non-compliant tenders in a number of EU jurisdictions (namely, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom). In order to set the common ground for the...

This paper stresses the negative impact that the excessive levels of transparency imposed by public procurement rules can have on competition for public contracts and, more generally, on the likelihood of cartelisation of the markets where public procurement takes place. The paper critically...

Spanish Abstract: El análisis económico del derecho de la contratación pública ha dado lugar a importantes contribuciones relacionadas con el diseño de los contratos desde el punto de vista de los incentivos de los licitadores, así como a avances en la formalización de estudios...

Este artículo reflexiona críticamente acerca de las posibilidades de controlar el comportamiento de mercado del comprador público mediante la aplicación de las normas comunitarias de defensa de la competencia y de contratación pública, con un énfasis particular en su aplicación por la...