Implementation of Green Considerations in Public Procurement

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Andrea Appolloni ◽  
Maria Antonietta Coppola ◽  
Gustavo Piga
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Contracting ◽  
Contract Performance ◽  
Environmental Criteria ◽  
Winning Bidder ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Environmental Considerations

Green considerations can be applied during all phases of the public procurement process: from the pre-award to the award and post-award phase. They can be included in technical specifications, award criteria, and contract performance clauses. Technical specifications provide a detailed description to the market of the good, work, or service to be procured. They constitute the basis for drafting green award criteria, which allow contracting entities to evaluate the received bids and award the contract. Contract performance clauses can also be used by public contracting entities to introduce environmental considerations in the procurement process. These clauses are based on the capacity of the winning bidder to perform the negotiated environmental criteria. Notwithstanding the importance of GPP, green considerations are seldom applied in public procurement. Reasons can be found in the lack of appropriate regulations at national and international level, or in the actual lack of training of the procurement workforce.

MANAGING THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCESS: MODERN CHALLENGES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentyna Tokareva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Process Management ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Current System ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
System Sustainability

The article analyzes the legislative and organizational shortcomings of the public procurement system. Sustainability of modern states, societies and humanity in general is an urgent problem in the context of preserving humanity as a species. Because the complex economic, political and social problems need to be addressed are essentially challenges for modern civilization. Accordingly, an adequate response to the challenges is the key to harmony and peace on the planet. In this context, the problem of managing the public procurement process becomes relevant, as the social benefits of properly organized and conducted procurement often exceed even the economic benefits. The integrity of the procurement process management methodology provides, accordingly, a holistic vision of this process and allows to fully address the gaps in the system. At the same time, in the modern world, each system is a priori open and must respond flexibly to the needs of society. In the current system, too much attention is paid to compliance with established rules, rather than the introduction of tools aimed at improving efficiency and competitiveness. The Ministry of Finance can gradually change the direction of procurement in order to rationalize costs, for example, through the introduction of quality assessment criteria that allow to choose suppliers not only by price. As a follow-up to recent reforms, strategic management of the procurement cycle should be developed and more attention should be paid to the contract monitoring phase. The main components of the procurement cycle require improvements, in particular, planning, market research, development of technical specifications and access of foreign suppliers to the public procurement web portal. Working in these areas will help reduce the frequency of procurement and increase competition in certain categories of procurement.

scholarly journals Public Policies for Procurement under COVID19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-36
Author(s):  
Luís Valadares Tavares ◽  
Pedro Arruda
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
European Directives ◽  
Public Markets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Contracting ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Selection Of

Public procurement is a main issue in the frontline of Governments fighting COVID 19 pandemic as the need for additional and urgent acquisitions as well as the need to consolidate the supply chains and to promote sustainable and innovative procurement have been a source of deep changes and main challenges disturbing public markets and invalidating several assumptions of the traditional public contracting. In this paper, the development of appropriate public policies to cope with these challenges is studied following the approach suggested by several authors and including four stages: a Stage on Facts and Issues where the main challenges and conditions are studied, the Options Stage to describe which polices and procedures can be adopted, a Values Stage stating the main values to be pursued and, finally, a Policies Stage including the selection of the recommended policies. The analysis of the challenges and facts includes the study of a taxonomy of short and longer term needs and the available options are based on the comparative study of procedures ruled by the European Directives on Public Procurement approved on 2014. The major values to be respected include the principle of competition which is a major institutional principle of the European Treaty and of the Directives as well as the goal of promoting sustainable and innovative public procurement. Several indicators are suggested to describe the application of the public procurement policies adopted across EU and their comparative analysis is presented using the TED data for contracts concerning COVID 19. The case of Portugal is discussed and final remarks about the recommended public policies are also included herein.

PRIORITY MEASURES OF LEGAL REGULATION OF THE SYSTEM OF S TATE AND MUNICIPAL PROCUREMENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-94
Author(s):  
I.Yu. Fedorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Management System ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Finance Management ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Last Stage

The paper considers innovations in the field of legal regulation of public procurement at the last stage of the reform carried out in the public finance management system. The main attention is paid to filling the gaps in the legislative framework of the contract system in the field of procurement through the introduction of more effective instruments in 2018–2019, measures are considered that can increase the efficiency of the procurement process, and the conclusion is drawn about the effect of procurement on the development of individual sectors of the economy.

Legislation for Public Procurements and Disposal of Public Assets

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-171
Author(s):  
Simeon Wanyama
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Regulations And Guidelines

This chapter is about corrupt practices in the public procurement cycle. Taking the example of Uganda, it identifies what takes place at each of the stages of public procurement and examines the perspectives of stakeholders regarding alleged corruption, misappropriation, and fraudulent practices during the public procurement process. It also reviews the governance systems that have been put in place to try and stem out these malpractices and ensure proper governance in the administration of public procurement. The research followed a qualitative approach aimed at getting the views of stakeholders and understanding whether what is in place is adhering to the principles of public procurement which foster good governance and value for money. The findings of the study indicate that the perception of the majority of the respondents is that corruption is pervasive in public procurement in Uganda despite good laws, regulations, and guidelines that have been put in place and that it manifests itself at all the stages of public procurement.

Public Procurement and Transparency in the Private Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Tom Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pay Differences ◽  
United Kingdom Government

This chapter begins by considering public procurement in the context of equality duties. The United Kingdom government has not used the Equality Act 2010’s regulation-making powers to impose specific statutory public procurement equality duties in England, but the Welsh and Scottish Ministers have made such regulations. Equality considerations are nonetheless relevant considerations in a public authority’s public procurement decisions as part of the general public sector equality duty in section 149 of the Act. The extent to which equality can (and should) be taken into account in the public procurement process is also, therefore, relevant to private undertakings which might wish to tender for the provision of goods or services to public authorities. The chapter then addresses the provisions in the Act intended to improve transparency in the private sector by prohibiting clauses which prevent employees discussing their pay. The Act introduced, in section 78, a power to make regulations which would impose a requirement on businesses to report on gender pay differences.

Influence of the Public Procurement Procedure Type on the Duration of Public Procurement

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladen Čudanov ◽  
Predrag Jovanović ◽  
Ondrej Jaško
Keyword(s):  
Linear Models ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Procurement Procedure ◽  
Procedure Type

This study analyses how important is the influence of the procedure type and a number of received bids on the duration of the public procedure process. Efficiency and speed of public procurement process diminish inventory turnaround times, direct and indirect costs of procurement, hastens and improves manageability of core processes in the organizations obliged to the public procurement process. Our study focuses on the quantitative analysis of the influence of the procedural public procurement framework mostly determined by the central government and describes potential other factors of efficiency which can be influenced at the local level. Dataset was obtained from the Public Procurement Office of Serbia, and it included 42,850 cases of public procurement after the correction of missing and “dirty” data. Using statistical methods we have presented two linear models, where the type of procedure and number of received bids account for roughly 23% of the variability in the dependent variable. This paper provides suggestions for improvement of efficiency of public procurement, as well as for data that needs to be tracked to develop more comprehensive, accurate and reliable prediction model of the duration of the public procurement process.

scholarly journals Public Procurement as the Object of Audit and Management of the United Rural Territorial Communities in the Context of Decentralization

2021 ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
Walery Okulicz-Kozaryn ◽  
◽  
Kateryna Melnyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
General System ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Audit ◽  
Decision Making System ◽  
Control Procedures ◽  
The Impact

United territorial communities in the context of decentralization are authorized to carry out public procurement at their own discretion. However, additional responsibility reinforces the need to involve the institution of audit as a guarantor of the economic and social feasibility of the process. The purpose of the article is to determine the place of public procurement as one of the objects of the national audit system in order to increase the efficiency of management of united territorial communities. It was found that, despite the improvement of legislative regulation in the sphere of public procurement, the illegal, often “lobbied” use of budgetary funds requires increased control, both from the state and the public, and from the actual administration of the united territorial communities. The theoretical and methodological foundations of the state audit of public procurement were revealed. The directions of improving the state audit of the public procurement process in united rural territorial communities were proposed, while observing the priority of sustainable development goals. The capabilities of the electronic public procurement platform Prozorro were critically assessed. The reasons and prerequisites for the elimination of the corruption component of the public procurement process at the local (united territorial communities) and global (national economy) levels were identified. The need for IT-auditing in the field of legality and economic feasibility of using budget funds in rural territorial communities was proved. The impact of the audit on the general system of information and analytical support of management consists in assessing the effectiveness of activity processes, information processes and control procedures in order to improve the management model of activity and, accordingly, the decision-making system.

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