- Volume 8 (2013), Issue 1
- Vol. 8 (2013), No. 1
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- Pages 19 - 30
- pp. 19 - 30
Sustainable Public Procurement: Life-Cycle Costing in the New EU Directive Proposal
The paper discusses a new tool to be used in public procurement by contracting authorities, namely Life-Cycle Costing (LCC), in light of the efforts made at the EU level to promote green and sustainable public procurement. The authors analyse the provisions concerning life-cycle costing comprised in the proposal of the European Commission for the new Public Procurement Directives. Several obstacles regarding the implementation of life-cycle costing are discussed along