focus is now put on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for AI regulation by contract to … procurement that could be activated to create or enforce digital regulation requirements. It primarily seeks to ascertain whether … procurement tools could effectively operationalise digital regulation goals without simply transferring regulatory decisions to …

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 …

economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An … transaction-cost-political approaches. There has been some progress in recent years in developing such a "new economic theory of … federalism". Basic ideas and some insights of this theory are discussed with regard to the appropriate "federal" allocation of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP), which would (among other things) address barriers to …