In this short paper, I reflect on the way in which digitalisation can foster more sustainable procurement in the EU context. I stress the sine qua non importance of building an enabling data architecture and point at areas for further research

The procurement function is not well-placed to act as a two-sided gatekeeper and thus unable to effectively ‘regulate by contract’ the behaviour of the public entities seeking to adopt digital technologies and technology providers offering to deliver them. Additionally, given in-built...

Following the identification of emerging risks in digital procurement governance (see https://ssrn.com/abstract=4254931), this Chapter explores how to embed risk assessments in the initial stages of decision-making processes leading to the adoption of digital solutions for procurement...

This Chapter complements the analysis at http://ssrn.com/abstract=4232973, which stressed that the potential benefits resulting from the adoption of digital technologies within the feasibility boundary drawn therein need to be assessed holistically and considering new governance risks and...

This paper takes the dearth of quality procurement data as an empirical point of departure to assess emerging regulatory trends in data-driven and digital public procurement governance and, in particular, the European Commission's ambition for the single digital procurement market. It resorts to...

This paper explores the position of public procurement in the broader transition towards digital public governance. First, the paper identifies how, in the context of the global ‘race to AI’, procurement is being assigned a gatekeeping role to discipline the adoption and use of digital...

This paper focuses on the interaction between the strategic goals of procurement centralisation and digitalisation set by the European Commission in its 2017 public procurement strategy. The paper identifies different ways in which current trends of procurement digitalisation and the challenges...

Public procurement is progressively being erected as the gatekeeper of digital technology adoption by the public sector and thus positioned as digital technology regulator, especially in the EU and UK context. Procurement is expected to ensure that the public sector only adopts trustworthy...

This Chapter builds on the argument that mitigating the allure and policy irresistibility of digital technologies requires reassessing the true potential benefits of digital technologies and, more importantly, the necessary enabling mechanisms, likely roadblocks, and new risks that come with...