Challenges of Public Procurement Reforms

Annalisa Castelli is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.Gustavo Piga is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Stéphane Saussier is Professor of Economics at Sorbonne Business School, France.Tünde Tátrai is Professor of Economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

• List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Foreword: The OECD’s work on Public Procurement: Reshaping the global agenda. Part I Life-cycle costing in public procurement. 1 Life-cycle costing in public procurement: Colloquium. 2 Life-cycle thinking in EU public procurement: Moving beyond a simple ‘buzz word’. 3 LCC and GPP: Competing or complementary approaches? Part II Calculating costs and savings of public procurement 4 Calculating the costs and savings of public procurement: Colloquium 5 Challenges and methods for cost analysis in public procurement: Lessons from the procurement of public transportation services in the Stockholm region 6 Reference prices and Italian spending review Part III Corruption and probity in public procurement 7 Corruption and probity in public procurement: Colloquium 8 Challenges in public procurement: Corruption and probity in public procurement 9 Municipal procurement of social care – opportunistic behavior opportunities Part IV Public procurement and international trade agreements: CETA, TTIP and beyond 10 Public procurement and international trade agreements – CETA, TTIP and beyond: Colloquium 11 Growing significance of regional trade agreements in opening public procurement 12 Transatlantic trade and public procurement openness: Going beyond the tip of the iceberg. Index.