agencies in the procurement of goods through International Competitive Bidding (ICB). The procedures and practices presented in …

Based on an assumption that in its current shape the EU public procurement framework is a highly regulated and rigid … European procurement system to another system which has an absolutely different approach towards procurement in order to … investigate, whether an exclusion of PPP contracts from public procurement directives in the EU could be beneficial …

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 …

The paper discusses a new tool to be used in public procurement by contracting authorities, namely Life Cycle Costing …, in light of the efforts made at the EU level to promote green and sustainable public procurement. The authors analyse the … provisions concerning Life Cycle Costing comprised in the proposal of the European Commission for the new Public Procurement …

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 …