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 …

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 …

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 …