Sustainable Public Procurement: The Use of Eco-Labels journal article Bogdana Neamtu, Dacian C. Dragos European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 10 (2015), Issue 2, Page 92 - 101 This article introduces the concept of eco-labels (evolution, definitions, and classifications) and discusses its growing popularity in the context of major shifts in environmental policy. It then investigates the use of eco-label in the context of public procurement and explores the provisions from the new public procurement Directive applicable to eco-labels. The article ends with a discussion of the relevant case law of the CJEU.
Sustainable Public Procurement: Life-Cycle Costing in the New EU Directive Proposal journal article Dacian Dragos, Bogdana Neamtu European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 8 (2013), Issue 1, Page 19 - 30 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
Estimated Value vs Final Contract Value in Works Public Procurement – What Causes the Discrepancy? Marko Turudić, Melko Dragojević