In its recent Green Deal, the Commission reconfirms the importance of public procurement law as an instrument to realise sustainability goals. Public procurement regulation has indeed opened up to more ‘noble’ considerations beyond its traditional principles of non‑discrimination,...

Mit dem Gesetzentwurf für eine "Modernisierung des Vergaberechtes" möchte die Landesregierung von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sicherstellen, dass zukünftig nur noch solche Unternehmen öffentliche Aufträge erhalten, die bei der Auftragsdurchführung ihren Beschäftigten mindestens die Löhne und...

We examine a new data set of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on discretion of the procuring agents. We find that laws and practices are highly correlated with each other across countries,...

This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in...

FinTech -- along with the blockchain, other distributed ledger, smart contract, and tokenization usually assumed to accompany it -- could change the way governments procure goods and services. Procurement authorities and procurement law can play a vital role in the development of FinTech. They...

Einleitung -- Vergaberechtsreformen: Paradigmenwechsel, „langer Schatten“ marktliberaler Rechtsprechung oder ‚institutional layering‘?- Architektur der Vermarktlichung: Die Institutionalisierung und Konstitutionalisierung des Wettbewerbsprinzips -- 4 Sozialpolitisierung: Der Einzug von...

[Zusammenfassende Empfehlung] Die Gesetzesentwürfe der Landesregierung von Brandenburg sowie der Fraktion DIE LINKE im Landtag von Brandenburg sehen in zwei zentralen Punkten eine wichtige Weiterentwicklung des Brandenburgischen Vergabegesetzes vor. Im ersten Punkt geht es um eine Erhöhung des...

Modern public procurement laws — such as the U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation — are based on the principle of efficiency. Recent revisions have introduced the concepts of sustainability and anti-corruption. Decision makers are now confronted with new goals that ask for trade-offs....

This chapter addresses the nature of discretion in public procurement as it relates to the emergence of eco-labels and life-cycle costing (LCC), and the role of these mechanisms in furthering environmental interests through public procurement programs in the European Union (EU) and United States...

It is claimed that many regulatory rules enforce inefficiencies in order to achieve the appearance of cost control. We assess the importance of these claims by measuring the effect of New York state's compulsory multiple contractor law on the cost of public construction in New York City....

The main development objective of the work has been to use the MAPS assessment tool to assess the quality and effectiveness of Moldova's public procurement system and on that basis create an evidence base for future reforms. In order to achieve this objective, the assessment has endeavored to:...

Public procurement is one of the main cross-sectoral reforms that the Government of Lebanon committed to at the "Conference economique pour le developpement, par les reformes et avec les entreprises" (CEDRE) held in Paris in April 2018, in order to improve fiscal governance and the quality of...

On 31 March 2004 the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament adopted the Public Sector Procurement Directive, with a national implementation deadline of 31 January 2006. In common with earlier Community public sector procurement legislation, the new Directive seeks to ensure that...

Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und soziale Missstände sind immer stärker spürbar. Die Europäische Union und die Mitgliedsstaaten sehen sich daher dringender denn je mit der Frage konfrontiert, welche Maßnahmen dagegen ergriffen werden können. Das Vergaberecht kann dabei eine wichtige...

Public Procurement is a highly regulated process ruled by a complex legal framework. It comprises not only national but also, increasingly, sub- and supranational regulations, giving rise to a multi-level regulatory governance of public procurement. The integration of sustainability aspects into...

GPA had a main objective from its very beginning: confronting discrimination between bidders on national or geographical grounds and opening the system up to greater competence between private actors. The World has experienced a gradual liberalization of public national markets that was almost...

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...

Public Procurement is a highly regulated process ruled by a complex legal framework. It comprises not only national but also, increasingly, sub- and supranational regulations, giving rise to a multi-level regulatory governance of public procurement. The integration of sustainability aspects into...

We examine a new data set of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on discretion of the procuring agents. We find that laws and practices are highly correlated with each other across countries,...

This paper examines a new dataset of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. The authors measure regulation as restrictions on the discretion of the procuring agents. They find that laws and practices are highly correlated with each...

In this paper we examine a new dataset of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the discretion of the procuring agents. We find that laws and practices are highly correlated with each other...

There is substantial scholarship on the limitations that international investment agreements (IIAs) place on States' authority to regulate in the public interest. An area of fundamental importance that has not received scholarly attention in connection with IIAs is public procurement regulation....

The Mozambique country procurement assessment based on the methodology for assessing procurement systems (MAPS II) methodology was carried out from September 2018 to June 2019, at the initiative of the Government of Mozambique (GOM) through the functional unit for supervision of procurement...

Im November veröffentlichte die Bundesnetzagentur ihre Entscheidung zu den Vergaberegeln von insgesamt 120 bzw. 300 MHz Funkspektrum in den Bereichen 2 GHz und 3,6 GHz, die im Frühjahr 2019 versteigert werden. Torsten J. Gerpott, Universität Duisburg-Essen, stellt die Auflagen zur...

This chapter discusses the relationship between public procurement and company law within the context of the overarching EU objective of sustainable development. The EU recognises the importance of business to achieve sustainability and the relevance of public procurement law as a policy...