optimal procurement of innovation are considered. Finally, we sketch enforcement and competition policy issues. …

This study empirically investigates the impact of public procurement regulation quality on the competition for tenders … and the cost-effectiveness of awarded contracts, by employing the World Bank's Benchmarking Public Procurement and EuroPAM … Public Procurement quality scores. Using extensive data on public procurement in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and …

Public procurement cost evaluation is important both for procurement optimization at the company level and for … evaluating the public procurement regulatory system. This paper presents a survey-based methodological approach to public … procurement cost evaluation at the macro level. Our approach is based on a methodology for assessing the efficiency of public …

This paper will show that the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU and … Commission Implementing Regulation 2016/07 constitutes a paradigm shift on how public procurement procedures are run in the EU … procurement procedure had to submit all qualifying information at the start of the procedure. This mean incurring in transaction …

This paper analyzes how features of the procurement system laid down by the EU Procurement Directives affect the … analysis of competition in public procurement markets. It presents the bidding systems allowed under the EU rules and provides … a general framework to assess competition concerns for the public procurement auctions characterizing it. It concludes …

Regulatory efforts on both sides of the Atlantic, in anti-corruption and procurement, are become more interdependent … new directives on procurement, and the United States and Europe moved forward in negotiating a comprehensive free trade … trade in procurement. This piece reviews the T-TIP agreement's potential impact on procurement, in the near and long term …

This study aimed at making information available on how public procurement audit is carried out in practice in Ghana …'s public sector establishments. The coverage of this study is limited to the Northern Zonal Office of the Public Procurement … Authority and the procurement unit of Kumasi Polytechnic. A survey was conducted on these two Ghanaian public sector …

procurement, as a means to stimulate innovation.Design/methodology/approach: By applying a post … procurement of innovation policies. The case study findings suggest that few of the challenges innovating SME's are facing would … be ameliorated by developing public procurement of innovation policies specifically targeting SME promotion. Research …