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Efficiency and Effectiveness in Public Sector Management: The Regulation of Public Markets and Public-Private Partnerships and Its Impact on Contemporary Theories of Public Administration journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 8 (2013), Issue 2, Page 186 - 199

I. Introduction The public sector integration in the European Union has been an integral part to the concept of the internal market. It provides for economic and policy justifications for establishing a genuinely competitive environment within which both private and public markets may function and inter- State trade patterns flourish. The economic approach to the regulation of the public sector aims at the integration of public markets across the


Risk and Public-Private Partnerships journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 7 (2012), Issue 1, Page 44 - 56

I. Introduction The Public-Private Partnerships offering has been utilised as a credible solution to bridge the infrastructure deficit of many States in both the developed and developing world. PPPs can provide a number of specific benefits to the public sector. In particular, they can offer value for money solutions, where the PPP can attain lower costs, higher levels of service through innovation and reduced risk for the public sector. One of the mo


Public Service Partnerships as Instruments of Public Sector Management in the EU journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 6 (2011), Issue 4, Page 201 - 228

European States are changing their role and their responsibilities in the process of delivering public services. Recent developments have shown that public services require state intervention for their provision, organisation and delivery. Public services often emerge and interface in a sui generis market place which does not correspond to private markets. This axiom implies the relative inability of anti-trust law and policy to regulate this market place, alongside an o


Access to Justice and Remedies in Public Procurement journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 7 (2012), Issue 3, Page 195 - 202

The essential European instruments allowing for access to Justice of the parties involved in a Procurement process are the Remedies Directives. This article reviews the problems which emerged and the three principles on the basis of which the ECJ interpreted and applied these texts: on the one hand the principle of procedural autonomy and on the other the principles of effectiveness and procedural equality. I. Introduction The Remedies Directives1 brought a dece


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