[PDF] Competition Implications Of Procurement Digitalisation And The Procurement Of Digital Technologies By Central Purchasing Bodies eBook

Author : Albert Sanchez-Graells
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This paper focuses on the interaction between the strategic goals of procurement centralisation and digitalisation set by the European Commission in its 2017 public procurement strategy. The paper identifies different ways in which current trends of procurement digitalisation and the challenges in procuring digital technologies push for further procurement centralisation. This is in particular to facilitate the extraction of insights from big data held by central purchasing bodies (CPBs); build public sector digital capabilities; and boost procurement's regulatory gatekeeping potential. It then explores the competition implications of this technology-driven push for further procurement centralisation, in both 'standard' and digital markets. The paper concludes by stressing the need to bring CPBs within the remit of competition law, the opportunity to consider allocating CPB data management to a separate competent body under the Data Governance Act, and the related need to develop an effective system of mandatory requirements and external oversight of public sector digitalisation processes, specially to constrain CPBs' (unbridled) digital regulatory power.

Author : Albert Sanchez-Graells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 019263660X

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The digital transformation of the public sector has accelerated. States are experimenting with technology, seeking more streamlined and efficient digital government and public services. However, there are significant concerns about the risks and harms to individual and collective rights under new modes of digital public governance. Several jurisdictions are attempting to regulate digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence, however regulatory effort primarily concentrates on technology use by companies, not by governments. The regulatory gap underpinning public sector digitalisation is growing. As it controls the acquisition of digital technologies, public procurement has emerged as a 'regulatory fix' to govern public sector digitalisation. It seeks to ensure through its contracts that public sector digitalisation is trustworthy, ethical, responsible, transparent, fair, and (cyber) safe. However, in Digital Technologies and Public Procurement: Gatekeeping and Experimentation in Digital Public Governance, Albert Sanchez-Graells argues that procurement cannot perform this gatekeeping role effectively. Through a detailed case study of procurement digitalisation as a site of unregulated technological experimentation, he demonstrates that relying on 'regulation by contract' creates a false sense of security in governing the transition towards digital public governance. This leaves the public sector exposed to the 'policy irresistibility' that surrounds hyped digital technologies. Bringing together insights from political economy, public policy, science, technology, and legal scholarship, this thought-provoking book proposes an alternative regulatory approach and contributes to broader debates of digital constitutionalism and digital technology regulation.

Author : Albert Sánchez Graells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198866771

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Bringing together insights from political economy, public policy, science, technology and legal scholarship, this book explores the role of public procurement in digital technology regulation.

Author : Lukas Kaiser
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File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2018
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Digitalization has been a central topic on the agenda of many executives for the past years, but only a few identifed and used the potential which lies in their company. In a time of fierce competition it becomes more and more important to stand out from the competitors. Cost-savings, value creation, competitiveness as well as new innovations and business models are the most important goals. The Procurement function has been researched extensively with regards to processes and the inter-connection and functioning in the corporate landscape. The technological influence of the latest digital technologies has not yet been matter of subject. Since the procurement function has a high strategic and operational impact on the entire company, the digitization of procurement processes with certain technologies can help to achieve the main goals of company executives. This thesis outlines the most relevant technologies and technology use cases in procurement processes in order to develop a digital process framework for the procurement function. Since the effectiveness is highly depending on the design of the ecosystem in which the digitized processes are implemented, the evaluation is carried out in the context of a digital platform architecture in a three-step analysis. Firstly, the relevant sub-processes, technologies and technology use-cases in procurement processes are described as the foundation for the empirical research. Secondly, a quantitative survey targeted at procurement experts collects information on the familiarity and practical experience with the most relevant technologies as well as on the evaluation of the potential of the implementation of a selected technology on a certain sub-process. Subsequently, interviews with selected procurement executives and digital technology experts supply further information on the implementation and digital platform environment. Lastly, the design and implementation of certain technologies in the procurement process framework is described. The findings of the analysis suggest that there is an industry-specific difference in the digital maturity of the procurement functions as well as industry-specific requirements and priorities. Digital workplaces as a design and implementation approach combines long-term strategic and short-term operational goals, enabling cost-savings, an increase in competitiveness as well as an open architecture infrastructure for external and internal collaboration.

Author : Albert Sanchez-Graells
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File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2020
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The creation of central purchasing bodies (CPBs) sought to generate administrative efficiencies and to aggregate public demand to enable the exercise of buying power capable of delivering better value for money and an opportunity for strategic procurement steering. However, CPB activity can have negative dynamic effects on market structure and the ensuing risk of bid rigging, distort competition for future public contracts, and reduce the resilience of the procurement system and the supply chains on which it relies by depleting the supplier pool. It can also generate excessive risks and result in unsustainable procurement systems. The emerging evidence of the failure of the UK's centralised healthcare procurement system to react to the COVID-19 pandemic is the canary in the coalmine. Against this background, this paper undertakes a comparative survey of the oversight of CPB activity from the perspective of market competition and SME participation in selected EU jurisdictions and the UK. The analysis shows emerging national practices that increasingly subject CPB activities to competition scrutiny, to judicially enforced limits and to increasing requirements of market engagement and consultation. It also shows a clear prominence of SME concerns in the CPB context. However, there is still limited awareness at national level of the medium- to long-term negative effects of (excessive) CPB reliance and most current checks and balances are still rather static. The paper suggests that a more dynamic model could be used as a regulatory benchmark.

Author : Shakya, Rajesh Kumar
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1522522042

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Public procurement is vulnerable on many levels. Therefore, to increase protection and improve efficiency, governments across the globe are looking to introduce electronic-based infrastructures. Digital Governance and E-Government Principles Applied to Public Procurement is an essential reference publication for the latest research on the implementation and impact of public reforms through e-Procurement. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives, such as anti-corruption, acquisitions costs, and governance structures, this book is ideally designed for academicians, practitioners, professionals, and researchers seeking current research on the regulation of the public sector through digital approaches.

Author : Charles Edquist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792386858

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Public Technology Procurement and Innovation studies public technology procurement as an instrument of innovation policy. In the past few years, public technology procurement has been a relatively neglected topic in the theoretical and research literature on the economics of innovation. Similarly, preoccupation with `supply-side' measures has led policy-makers to avoid making very extensive use of this important `demand-side' instrument. These trends have been especially pronounced in the European Union. There, as this book will argue, existing legislation governing public procurement presents obstacles to the use of public technology procurement as a means of stimulating and supporting technological innovation. Recently, however, there has been a gradual re-awakening of practical interest in such measures among policy-makers in the EU and elsewhere. For these and other related measures, this volume aims to contribute to a serious reconsideration of public technology procurement from the complementary standpoints of innovation theory and innovation policy.

Author : Albert Sanchez-Graells
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Release : 2019
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In this short paper, I reflect on the way in which digitalisation can foster more sustainable procurement in the EU context. I stress the sine qua non importance of building an enabling data architecture and point at areas for further research.

Author : Pani, Ashis K.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1599041553

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Information systems are shaped by the environment in which they operate, and e-Procurement in Emerging Economies: Theory and Cases explains how e-procurement is shaped in emerging economies. Contributors from Italy, China, India, Turkey, Slovenia, Australia, and UK have submitted case studies and theoretical insights on e-procurement and its implications for emerging economies, covering a gamut of issues that are relevant to understand how Web-based function and services effect buyer supplier interactions in emerging economies. e-Procurement in Emerging Economies: Theory and Cases presents issues such as legal, technical, cultural and social analysis on e-procurement, and offers technical and managerial solutions to professionals in different emerging economies and industries.

Author : Albert Sanchez-Graells
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Release : 2023
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This paper explores the position of public procurement in the broader transition towards digital public governance. First, the paper identifies how, in the context of the global 'race to AI', procurement is being assigned a gatekeeping role to discipline the adoption and use of digital technologies by the public sector to promote goals such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability. The paper stresses the difficulties stemming from the incommensurability of some of such putative goals of digital regulation, as well as the constraints stemming from the need for technical, economic, and contextual judgements in the operationalisation of some other goals. This suggests that procurement will not properly function as a tool of digital regulation. Second, the paper frames procurement as a site of technological experimentation, as procurement is itself an area of public sector activity currently undergoing digitalisation. Digital procurement thus offers a useful case study to understand the broader challenges, issues, and limitations in the leveraging of procurement to regulate public sector digitalisation and to test the submission that procurement will not properly function as a tool of digital 'regulation by contract'