Download or read book Collaborative Cross Border Procurement in the EU written by Albert Sanchez-Graells and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative public procurement has been gaining traction in recent years and could be considered at the spearhead of public procurement reform and innovation. The 2014 reform of the EU public procurement rules (mainly Directive 2014/24) has expanded the tool-kit available to contracting authorities willing to engage in joint or centralised procurement activities, and in particularly in cross-border procurement collaboration. In a push forward, and as part of the Strategy for a deeper and fairer single market in its larger context, the European Commission is developing a policy to facilitate and promote cross-border collaborative public procurement in the European Union. This paper adopts a sceptical approach and critically assesses the political, economic and in particular legal factors that can facilitate or block such development. To do so, it focuses on a case study based on a theoretical scenario of cross-border collaboration between centralised purchasing bodies in different EU Member States. The paper ultimately aims to establish a blueprint for future legal research in this area, in particular regarding the emergence of trans-EU public law.
Download or read book Centralising Public Procurement written by Risvig Hamer, Carina and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book examines the ever-increasing prevalence of Central Purchasing Bodies (CPBs), analysing their use and structure across different EU Member States. It argues that since CPBs are only partially regulated at EU level, their operations will depend on the legislation of the individual Member States and more importantly on the States’ distinct practices and traditions. Comparative contributions consider the legal nature and structures of CPBs across 12 Member States and the UK.
Download or read book Collaborative Centralized Cross Border Public Procurement written by Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Directive 2014/24/EU on Public Procurement (“the Directive 2014/24), the Directive 2014/25/EU on Utilities, and the European Commission have as one of their aims the impulse of aggregation of public purchases by means of central purchasing bodies and other aggregated procurement techniques. The interest and initiative of public procurement stakeholders, particularly the Commission, some Member States, and some contracting authorities to strengthen and develop further centralized purchasing techniques. As part of these efforts, centralized purchasing services are now seen not only as purely national option but rather as a vehicle for public-public cross-border collaboration. For the first time in EU/EEA public procurement history, the Public Procurement Directives expressly contemplate the possibility of awarding public contracts through contracting authorities from different MS by means of cross-border procurement collaboration. These cross-border collaborative provisions allegedly allow contracting authorities “derive maximum benefit from the potential of the internal market in terms of economies of scale and risk-benefit sharing” and minimize risks. Cross-border centralization collaboration opens the door to a novel and innovative way of carrying out public procurement that steers away from a purely public and national procurement purchasing option regarding which entity 'buys for you' to a 'buy-through Europe' model, towards the maximum optimization or public resources. Based on this, contracting authorities can enter into public contracts for the purchasing of works, goods or services through a CPB located in a different MS and under the scope of two or more legal regimes. While a well-intended idea, it is not clear, however, whether these cross-border CPB provisions will be workable in practice due to the complexity of its implementation and the legal and economic obstacles they will face.
Download or read book How Can Voluntary Cross border Collaboration in Public Procurement Improve Access to Health Technologies in Europe written by Jaime Espín-Balbino and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. There is a growing interest in further developing cross-border collaboration in the field of health, both at a bilateral and a multilateral level. This is supported by European Union (EU) legislation and policies, and extends to improving access to health technologies.2. Changes in health technologies markets, such as the generalization of managed entry agreements (MEAs) and the prevailing lack of price transparency - particularly in price discounts - require different approaches to those applied in the past.3. There is a sound rationale for increased voluntary collaboration between countries in the procurement of health technologies: to enhance transparency through better information sharing to enable cross-country learning by sharing experience to strengthen bargaining power and mitigate overly high transaction costs by pooling skills, capacities and through joint negotiations to ensure sustainable access to health technologies by sharing resources through cross-border exchange of products in short supply.4. However, in practice, developing sustainable cross-border collaboration in procurement seems to be challenging. Experiences in Europe are still limited and too recent to really allow clear lessons to be drawn about their effectiveness and impact.5. Nevertheless, it is clear that related initiatives would require strong political commitment and mutual trust between purchasing partners in order to succeed. It is therefore advisable that they be built progressively, starting with collaboration in information sharing and knowledge exchange, before moving towards joint purchasing activities.
Download or read book Joint Public Procurement and Innovation written by Gabriella Margherita Racca and published by Bruylant. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in public procurement is essential for sustainable and inclusive growth in an increasingly globalized economy. To achieve that potential, both the promises and the perils of innovation must be investigated, including the risks and opportunities of joint procurement across borders in the European Union and the United States. This in-depth research investigates innovation in public procurement from three different perspectives. First, leading academics and practitioners assess the purchase of innovation, with a particular focus on urban public contracting in smart cities involving meta-infrastructures, public-private partnership arrangements and smart contracts. A second line of inquiry looks for ways to encourage innovative suppliers. Here, the collected authors draw on emerging lessons from the US and Europe, to explore both the costs and the benefits of spurring innovation through procurement. A third perspective looks to various innovations in the procurement process itself, with a focus on the effects of joint and cross-border procurement in the EU and US landscapes. The chapters review new technologies and platforms, the increasingly automated means of selecting suppliers, and the related efficiencies that “big data” can bring to public procurement. Expanding on research in the editors’ prior volume, Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts: Balancing Corruption Concerns in Public Procurement Internationally (Bruylant 2014), this volume builds on a series of academic conferences and exchanges to address these issues from sophisticated academic, institutional and practical perspectives, and to point the way to future research on the contractual models that are emerging from new procurement technologies.
Download or read book How Can Voluntary Cross border Collaboration in Public Procurement Improve Access to Health Technologies in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study on the Measurement of Cross border Penetration in the EU Public Procurement Market written by Prometeia SpA and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of fundamental change and extraordinary investment plans in the EU, public procurement represents a strategic instrument for each Member State's economic policy. Ensuring efficient and transparent public procurement can contribute to address many of Europe's major challenges, especially in creating sustainable growth and jobs. Public authorities, by increasing efficiency of public spending to obtain better value for money, can contribute to a more innovative, sustainable, inclusive and competitive economy, while delivering better outcomes for societal and other public policy objectives. In addition, improving procurement is part of the stronger single market strategy pursued by the European Commission. Transparency and competition can lower prices and increase the quality of goods and services purchased by national contracting authorities and create a larger cross-border tendering in the EU. A well-functioning public procurement market, ensuring high level of openness and competition, would benefit European companies and ultimately, all European citizens enjoying a higher quality and effective public spending. Companies bidding for public contracts in their own, as well as other EU Member States, would benefit from improved access to procurement markets. At the same time, these rules aim to create better SME opportunities and ensure reciprocity with trading partners outside the EU. Technological acceleration and digitalisation, changing demographics and evermore interconnected markets strongly affect our societies and economies. In a globalised world, the economic integration brought about by the single market remains a key driver for wealth creation and competitiveness, and therefore our best protection. A clear and precise picture of the cross-border public procurement trends is therefore needed to help the European Commission adopt informed actions and potentially re-shape the applicable legal framework. This study depicts the recent cross-border activity in public procurement in the EU27 and updates the timelines of relevant indicators calculated in two previous studies1 of similar scope. It closely follows the structure and the methodologies of the previous work on the subject, and both take a top-down approach in describing the EU27 cross-border public procurement: first by presenting the macro data that sheds light on the potential size of the market, and second by performing a statistical analysis using micro data to quantify and formally analyse the factors related to cross-border procurement. Additionally, this work presents novel aspects that reflect increased integration arising from the extension of the global value chains. It also contributes to the macro measurement and, to some extent, the micro measurement by presenting a novel quantification of the cross-border public procurement that includes the existing value-added supply chains. Finally, the complete study contains a vast amount of information on the characteristics of the public procurement contract awards registered in the Supplement to the Official Journal from 2016 to 2019, with some sections covering even wider time frame (2009-2016). This executive summary only reports a selected number of these characteristics together with the main key findings.
Download or read book Cross border Public Procurement written by Sverige. Kommerskollegium and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Procurement Within the EU written by Stefan-Codrut Baciu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Public Procurement written by Caranta, Roberto and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed Commentary provides an authoritative interpretation of each provision in the main EU Directive on public procurement - Directive 2014/24/EU, and is rich in its critical analysis of the provisions of the 2014 Directive and the case-law. The Commentary also highlights the application problems and interpretative issues being raised in EU Member States, which in due time will make their way up to the CJEU or even require further legislative interventions.
Download or read book The Law of Collaborative Defence Procurement in the European Union written by Baudouin Heuninckx and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to analyse and make proposals for improving the law and management of collaborative defence procurement programmes.
Download or read book Is Joint Cross Border Public Procurement Legally Feasible Or Simply Commercially Tolerated A Critical Assessment of the BBG SKI JCBPP Feasibility Study written by Albert Sanchez-Graells and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a critical assessment of the Feasibility study concerning the actual implementation of a joint cross-border procurement procedure by public buyers from different Member States prepared by BBG-SKI for the European Commission. The paper submits that the study provides some interesting data and details about relevant case studies, but that it does not shed significant light on the doubts created by the rules on joint cross-border public procurement (JCBPP) in the 2014 EU Public Procurement Package, and that the main weakness of the study is its lack of a general legal analytical framework.In order to gain additional legal insights on the basis of the empirical data included in the BBG-SKI study, this paper proposes an analytical framework under which to assess the legal compliance of JCBPP structures. It then summarises each of the case studies included in the BBG-SKI study and offers a critical (re)assessment of the issues that would have required more information and/or which are insufficiently analysed in the BBG-SKI study. Based on this reorganised empirical evidence, the paper proceeds to a critical assessment of some of the outstanding legal barriers and challenges to JCBPP. It concludes by stressing some of the remaining uncertainties concerning legal development at Member State level, and calls on the European Commission to facilitate more detailed research leading to the adoption of future guidance on JCBPP under the 2014 EU Public Procurement Directives.
Download or read book EU Health Law Policy written by Anniek de Ruijter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether there is a public health need for the containment and response to swine flu, or an individual need to access health care across the border for a hip operation to alleviate pain, the EU has an increasingly powerful role in the field of human health. Health law and policy is deeply tied into fundamental rights, bioethics and values, with important implications for individuals. However, it is also an expansive area of economic regulation, of social and state arrangements. The growing role of the EU in human health law and policy is contested, particularly as it has implications for the fundamental rights and values that are enshrined in national health law and policy. This book outlines, through case studies, how the expansion of EU power is taking place through law and policy, in both public health and health care. How is law and policy in the field of human health adopted, who are the institutional actors involved, and what is the impact of these developments for fundamental rights?
Download or read book Practical guide to cross border cooperation written by European Commission and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law of Collaborative Defence Procurement in the European Union written by Baudouin Heuninckx and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines and makes proposals for improving the law and management of collaborative defence procurement programmes and provides practical examples to enhance efficiency of cooperation between states. Covering a broad scope of legal issues, it contains invaluable information for practitioners, policy-makers and academics aiming to analyse or improve these projects.
Download or read book EU Public Procurement and Innovation written by Pedro Cerqueira Gomes and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book provides readers with a practical and theoretical explanation of the ways in which the new, tailor-made Innovation Partnership Procedure can be used throughout all Member States in the European Union. With a focus on the Procurement Directive for the public sector (Directive 2014/24/EU), Pedro Cerqueira Gomes argues that innovation is a crucial policy of the EU that must be extended to public procurement – implying interesting harmonisation challenges, mostly regarding the use of the Innovation Partnership Procedure and the national administrative law traditions of the Member States.
Download or read book European Armaments Collaboration written by Ron Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. The changing strategic environment of the 1990s has been characterised by events such as the Middle-East conflagration and super-power disarmament which represent the two opposing ends of the present security spectrum. The framing of appropriate defence policies now depends on increased NATO industrial defence restructuring and cooperation, especially within Europe. This book identifies, explains and analyses the key issues involved in Europe's defence-industrial reorganisation progress. It tackles head-on controversial issues such as: divergences between practice and policy in NATO US-European positions; the high costs of collaborative ventures; competition vs concentration and the complexities of adopting an European defence consensus within NATO. At a time when the diminution of NATO's defence-industrial base goes hand-in-hand with product reorientation and specialization, this book provides concise, critical and contemporary assessment of European and NA TO collaborative issues.
