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 …

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 …

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 …

The objective of this article is to provide the first ever overview of joint cross-border procurement contracts …

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 …

Britain’s vote on June 23, 2016, to leave the European Union could have a profound impact on public procurement law … procurement directives. But Brexit’s indirect impact, in a diminished role for the British in European procurement policy, could …

procurement. The current lack of funds, however, risks undermining the quality of the health service and requires a prompt … solution that could be found in public procurement policies. Favouring professional buying and collaborative procurement could … help reduce costs and allow further control over the performance of the contracts. Collaborative procurement started later …