deals with an analysis of the organizational models for collaborative procurement and their role as stimulators of … innovation. The aim is to clarify the changing structure of public procurement procedures awarded by Professional Buying …

intersection of the EU rules on State aid, public procurement and the financing of SGEIs. Taking the uncertainties left by the … European Commission regarding the use of procurement procedures as a device to exclude the existence of State aid or, in case … modernisation agenda, in that the reform of public procurement rules currently underway may diminish the effectiveness of the recent …

buyers' offers become more generous. Buyers tend to prefer penalties, which may explain why they are dominant in procurement …

This piece reflects on the role of public procurement regulation in the face of a situation generating an extremely …, at a time of heightened public expenditure, public procurement rules are ‘deactivated'. That does not mean that unusual … procurement mechanism are not ‘activated', though, as the example of the EU's Joint Procurement Agreement shows. It also does not …

Quality and suppliers performance are essential for procurement. This Paper analyses these important issues from two … the buyer may choose according to the circumstances of the procurement. The central issue is how the procurer should … procurement. The second part of the Paper deals with this important problem, also known as non-contractible quality.The part …

Customer service is typically measured by using customer satisfaction surveys. In procurement organizations as in many … performance indicator (KPI). This study presents a new way to define, measure and calculate customer service in procurement …

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 …

product, we compare procurement contracts in which the procurer is either a public administration or a private corporation. We …

This paper investigates the relationship between the quality of regulatory policies governing public procurement and … participation in public tenders by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Using a large dataset on European procurement contracts, we … find that countries with better quality procurement regulation have higher SME participation and win ratios. Dividing …