Will FinTech Cause a Reconsideration of the Administrative and International Law Governing Public Procurement? Journal Artikel Bryane Michael European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 16 (2021), Ausgabe 3, Seite 229 - 239 Regulators should not just leave FinTech rulemaking up to financial regulators. Contracting authorities should not just develop or use their own selected FinTech applications willy-nilly. They should contribute to overall changes in a procurement law -which extend far beyond simple supervisory or regulatory technologies (RegTech/SupTech). Governments should get serious about the Agreement on Government Procurement and similar treaties - by creating a new authority to help develop the law needed to put FinTech-enabled procurement platforms in place. China’s own world-leading FinTech and cross-border public procurements do not always contribute to a global level playing field. Any FinTech applications facilitating public procurement should thus encourage compliance with the procurement law legal principles the international community has developed over decades. Keywords: public procurement, financial technology, FinTech
Iraq ∙ Conflicts, Protests and Bad Management: Is There a Way Out for Iraq’s Public Procurement Problems? Journal Artikel Malik Al Jabori European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 16 (2021), Ausgabe 3, Seite 260 - 263
Croatia ∙ Upcoming Amendments to the Croatian Public Procurement Act Journal Artikel Marko Turudić European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 16 (2021), Ausgabe 3, Seite 246 - 249
Deus Ex Machina? Journal Artikel Some Remarks on Public Procurement in the Second Machine Age Paweł Nowicki European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 15 (2020), Ausgabe 1, Seite 53 - 60 The ‘Second Machine Age’ is a term created by two MIT professors, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, and means the time of emerging technologies: artificial intelligence, machine learning, neurotechnology, biotechnology, virtual reality, Big Data, Internet of Things, blockchain, etc. Emerging technologies are seemingly not related to law, and in particular to public procurement law, but enter into complex relationships with legal regulation. This paper aims to introduce both the opportunities and challenges that some of these technologies (AI, blockchain, smart contracts) create for public procurement praxis, showing that it’s not deus ex machina. New technologies will undoubtedly enrich and improve the public procurement system, but they also raise legitimate ethical and legal concerns. Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Machine learning; Blockchain; Smart contracts; Future of public procurement; Digitalisation.
A New Methodology for Improving Penetration, Opportunity-Visibility and Decision-Making by SMEs in EU Public Procurement Journal Artikel Stephen Clear, Gary Clifford, Dermot Cahill, Barb Allen European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 15 (2020), Ausgabe 2, Seite 83 - 106 Despite over 30 years of legal harmonisation, stubbornly low levels of cross-border public procurement continue to persist in the EU. In 2016 the European Commission sought new thinking to address this long-standing problem. Drawing on a number of cross-border studies undertaken by the authors, the reasons for low level cross-border procurement penetration are identified. A new action-based framework to increase cross-border procurement is proposed, as are new ideas to make it easier to identify public contracts outside national borders. Suggestions for reforming tender evaluation practices that could encourage SMEs to overcome their aversion to ‘home bias’ are proposed, alongside a ‘balanced scorecard tool’ to guide SMEs making critical cross-border public procurement decisions. Keywords: SMEs, cross-border, EU public procurement, non-tariff-barriers, harmonisation
Sustainable Public Procurement Best Practices at Sub-National Level: Journal Artikel Drivers of Strategic Public Procurement Practices in Catalonia and Barcelona Lela Mélon European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 15 (2020), Ausgabe 2, Seite 138 - 161 The strategic use of public procurement across the European Union to contribute to sustainable development has been underdeveloped and unequally distributed among the EU Member States, with seven Member States being sustainable public procurement leaders, and the rest of the Member States having a very modest sustainable public procurement uptake. While Spain has not been one of the best performers, the outstanding Catalan performance as a Spanish autonomous community calls for the analysis of the driving factors that enabled a high sustainable public procurement uptake at the regional and local level. The present article explores the policy coherence, the accompanying legal framework and the supporting activities that have been carried out in Catalonia to incorporate green public procurement as the default procurement option at the regional and local level to serve as a potential model for a transition towards green public procurement for other regional and local procurement authorities. Keywords: sustainability, green public procurement, best practices
EU Public Procurement Law: Journal Artikel Amendments of Public Works Contracts After the Award due to Additional Works and Unforeseeable Circumstances Vincent P. Wangelow European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 15 (2020), Ausgabe 2, Seite 107 - 123 In 2014, a newly enacted set of directives sought to reform the EU Public Procurement Regime, promoting stronger harmonisation but also more flexibility in procurement activities throughout the European Union. Amendments to public contracts after the award have long been a grey area, both for contracting authorities and tenderers alike. However, given the economic importance of public procurement for the European economy, the sound functioning of procurement rules is key. Hence, the article aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the new provisions, especially as far as amendments to public works contracts due to the necessity of additional works (following, inter alia, inadequate planning) and unforeseeable circumstances (typically entailing delays, cost overruns etc.) are concerned. In this respect, drawing on sources from legal scholarship of different EU Member States (eg, Germany, France, Spain) and the UK, this article provides an analysis of the rules on post-award amendments to public contracts with an emphasis on Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU. To identify the underpinning ideas of these rules, the article considers policy goals and constraints as well as the relevant case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Keywords: public works contracts, EU public procurement, amendments, modifications, additional works and unforeseeable circumstances, Directive 2014/24/EU
Exclusion of Certain Legal Services from Directive 2014/24/EU: the Italian case Journal Artikel Marco Ceruti European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 15 (2020), Ausgabe 2, Seite 124 - 137 This article explores the exclusion of certain legal services from Directive 2014/24/EU, in relation to the Italian case, where the notion of ‘contract’ (‘appalto’) is opposed to the ‘intellectual/professional work contract’ (‘contratto d’opera’), although the concept of ‘contract’, not that of ‘appalto’, does appear in the European directives. So, with reference to the single legal assignment, a lot of attention must be paid to the terminology. In addition, on the assumption that a public utilitas, albeit modest, must be made contestable, more and more within a traditionally closed market of consolidated (hereditary, I would say) positions that in some ways reproduce a medieval feudal system, it is clear that, by way of a public evidence, some ‘grey areas’ of public administration, where the management of the res publica is intertwined with business and clientelism, generating corruption and malfeasance, in any case precluding impartiality, would be eliminated at the root. Keywords: public procurement, national legislation, exclusion of certain legal services, principles of equal treatment and subsidiarity
Public Procurement and Natural Disasters: Journal Artikel Lessons from Croatia Marko Turudić European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 15 (2020), Ausgabe 2, Seite 162 - 167 The COVID-19 pandemic has taken lives and endangered health all across the EU, and has had an profound effect on all aspects of economic activity across the Member States. Unfortunately, the pandemic isn't the only natural disaster affecting Croatia today; on 22 March 2020, Zagreb and its surrounding counties were struck by the strongest recorded earthquake since 1880. Croatian Government has implemented economic measures to mitigate the consequences of these two natural disasters. Two of those measures directly affect public procurement; the suspension of the majority of public procurement procedures and the Draft ‘Zagreb Rebuild Act’, which aims to suspend the Public Procurement Act in the procurement of materials, services and works for the Zagreb earthquake rebuild effort. This article aims to analyse the validity and consequences of those measures. Keywords: COVID-19, Croatia, Zagreb earthquake, suspension of public procurement
Editorial Journal Artikel Christopher Bovis European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Jahrgang 15 (2020), Ausgabe 2, Seite 81 - 82
Estimated Value vs Final Contract Value in Works Public Procurement – What Causes the Discrepancy? Marko Turudić, Melko Dragojević