certain types of complex and collaborative procurement and the difficulties in monitoring contract compliance clauses. Third … procurement relate to the higher-level or cross-cutting challenge of the professionalisation of the procurement workforce and the … professionalisation and networking of procurement officials. The paper concludes with some overall reflections and a call for a more …

This piece reflects on the role of public procurement regulation in the face of a situation generating an extremely …, at a time of heightened public expenditure, public procurement rules are ‘deactivated'. That does not mean that unusual … procurement mechanism are not ‘activated', though, as the example of the EU's Joint Procurement Agreement shows. It also does not …

of public procurement of the EU Institutions under the rules of the Financial Regulation, its Rules on Implementation … and business secrets in the context of procurement debriefing. It forms part of a larger comparative law project carried … out by the European Procurement Law Group …

The development of a more competition-oriented public procurement system is possible, on the basis of the principle of … competition that is embedded in the EC public procurement Directives. This paper explores the existence of the principle of … competition as regards the interpretation, transposition and application of EC public procurement Directives in a more competition …

The World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) has created the most comprehensive plurilateral … system for procurement-related trade liberalisation. However, there has been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs …) regulating public procurement liberalisation, including between GPA parties, which seek to bypass or go beyond the GPA on a …

Following the identification of emerging risks in digital procurement governance (see https://ssrn.com/abstract=4254931 … adoption of digital solutions for procurement governance, and how to ensure that they are iterated throughout the lifecycle of …

the required risk assessments in the process of adoption of digital technologies for procurement governance and consider …

This Chapter continues unpacking the gatekeeping role assigned to the procurement function in the context of public … sector digitalisation. After the analysis of procurement as a regulatory actor in https://ssrn.com/abstract=4351555, the … focus is now put on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for AI regulation by contract to …

This briefing paper provides a detailed comparison of the differences between the procurement chapter of the UK …-Australia Free Trade Agreement (UK-AUS FTA) and the World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA), to which … remedies. The analysis is applicable to procurement chapters in FTAs that adopt a GPA+ structure, where both signatories of the …

Procurement activities conducted by the public buyer are very relevant for the proper working of the markets. Hence … public procurement system that guarantees value for money to the public buyer and, more generally, increased social welfare … procurement - can be used as a solid legal basis to cover this gap in EU competition law. The development of a more competition …