This policy brief examines EU public procurement data from the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) to evaluate foreign bidders' participation and success in winning EU public contracts. Despite data coverage limitations, the available information shows an increase in foreign participation in both...

The aim of this study is to present the possibilities offered by Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement for the achievement of social goals and to analyse how these possibilities have been transposed into national law and implemented by contracting authorities across the EU. Another aim is...

The biggest reform step to date in the liberalisation and deepening of the EU internal market for services was taken with the EU Services Directive. Its implementation intended to provide a clear impetus for the removal of existing obstacles to the free movement of services, the freedom of...

This chapter examines general principles in EU public procurement law and explores how they ‘behave' in this specific sub-field. The chapter will consider in broad terms where, and in what ways, the general principles have had the most significant impact on public procurement, both under the...

The 2006 Services Directive was designed to stimulate the free circulation of services within the European internal market. Owing to their relatively poor tradability and considerable political sensitivity, the services that had not been liberalized by ad hoc EU legislation were still mostly...

By merging public and private tangible and intangible capitals, Public Private Partnerships contracts (PPP) are fundamental to generate public value and to support economic and social development; in the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, they prove critical to pave the way for the recovery. This...

In this paper we document border effects in the award of public contracts in the European Single Market. We use a data set of 1.8 million contract awards that have been matched to geo-locations to estimate a gravity model of procurement flows between European NUTS3 region pairs. Cross-national...

This article analyses the conceptual link between law and compliance, exploring the different theories and types of compliance (corporate, state and regulatory) and how they can be found today within the EU legal public procurement framework.The analytical focus is on Directive 2014/24/EU and...

Due to legislative and judicial developments, standard-setting has come to the forefront of public debates. Being for a long time considered as a 'no passing zone' for everyone but engineers and technical experts, standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have produced a rowing solid body of...

The year 2014 saw major developments in European public procurement law, as a number of new procurement directives finally came into force. This paper focuses on the two elements of the new European Union procurement directive, 2014/24/EU, most likely to affect the U.S. procurement community:...

The European Parliament hearings on the Commission's proposal for a "Regulation establishing rules on the access of third countries' goods and services to the EU internal market in public procurement" offers an opportunity to review two key pillars of the proposal. First, the Directive...

On the 4th of November 2009, the Swedish Parliament passed the government bill on the realization of the Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market (“the Services Directive ”). The amendments gained legal force...

Europäische und nationale Fördermittel zur Verbesserung der regionalen Strukturen werden zunehmend im Rahmen von Wettbewerben vergeben. Bei dieser Form der Mittelvergabe treten oftmals Parameter wie „regionale Bedürftigkeit“ oder geographische Besonderheiten in den Hintergrund, an denen...