- Volume 16 (2021), Issue 1
- Vol. 16 (2021), No. 1
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- Pages 39 - 51
- pp. 39 - 51
The Development and Critical Junctures of EU Public Procurement Rules Vis-à-Vis the Prevention of Bid Rigging
This article argues that the prevention of bid rigging has not been factored into the policy design of the EU Public Procurement Rules in a systematic and consistent way. As it will be shown, the critical junctures of EU Public Procurement Rules did not emerge alongside the anti-cartel legislation in Europe, but entirely independently of the latter. As a result, the current European Public Sector Directive 2014/24/EU is not adequately collusion proof and there is still a long way to go.
Keywords: bid rigging; collusion; EU Procurement Directives; competition; transparency