This paper explores three of the challenges that public buyers face when designing public tenders to support the delivery of smart urban mobility initiatives and when supervising the execution of the relevant contracts. First, the paper covers emerging issues around access and reuse of transport...

This piece reflects on the role of public procurement regulation in the face of a situation generating an extremely urgent need for the public sector to buy additional supplies and equipment, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Counterintuitively, at a time of heightened public expenditure, public...

This paper offers a cursory overview of the rules applicable to transparency and disclosure of documents in the context of public procurement of the EU Institutions under the rules of the Financial Regulation, its Rules on Implementation, and the EU FOIA Regulation (Reg 1049/2001). The paper...

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, roughly delimits its scope, and broadly...

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 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...

Following the identification of emerging risks in digital procurement governance (see https://ssrn.com/abstract=4254931), this Chapter explores how to embed risk assessments in the initial stages of decision-making processes leading to the adoption of digital solutions for procurement...

This Chapter complements the analysis at http://ssrn.com/abstract=4232973, which stressed that the potential benefits resulting from the adoption of digital technologies within the feasibility boundary drawn therein need to be assessed holistically and considering new governance risks and...

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...

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 both the UK and Australia are members. The briefing...