International Public Procurement

Consulting Editor Roberto Hernandez Garcia is a partner at COMAD, SC and advises national and international companies in Mexico, Central America and Europe across diverse sectors. He is the founding chair of the procurement committee at the Mexican Bar and vice chair and appointed chair of the International Construction Committee at the International Bar Association (IBA), among other positions. He also represented the IBA before the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the revision of its model procurement law. He is a professor of energy law and government procurement law at Universidad Panamerica, Mexico, a regular speaker at international events and author of multiple publications.

• Preface 5Renaud SorieulUNCITRALIntroduction: the global challenges of international public procurement 7Roberto Hernández GarcíaCOMAD, SCThe UNCITRAL Model Law: an example for the global community 19Caroline NicholasUNCITRALPublic procurement in the European Union 35John GraystonPeter TrepteGrayston & CompanyThe fight against corruption in public procurement: an introduction to best practices 57Michelle GreenwoodJames M KlotzMiller Thomson LLPPublic Procurement in Francophone Africa 75Aboubacar FallAfrican Development BankMarc FriletFrilet – Société d’AvocatsPublic procurement: the World Bank system 101Marc FriletFlorent LagerFrilet – Société d’AvocatsPublic procurement reforms and development in the Eastern and Southern Africa region 113Stephen R KarangiziIsaac NdahiroCOMESABrazil 131Júlio César BuenoRicardo Pagliari LevyPinheiro Neto AdvogadosBulgaria 151Nina BotevaAnna DodovaBoteva & Kantutis Law OfficeCanada 167Derek LeschinskyGerry StoboBorden Ladner Gervais LLPChina 189Richard W PearseVedder Price PCColombia 203Gonzalo Suárez-BeltránRoberto Laguado-GiraldoSuárez-Beltrán & AssociatesFrance 217Marc FriletFlorent LagerFrilet – Société d’AvocatsGermany 231Rouven F BodenheimerClaus H LenzLungerich & Lenz, RechtsanwälteGreece 253Konstantinos E KatsigiannisCE Katsigiannis & Associates 1886India 267Sumeet KachwahaKachwaha & PartnersItaly 279Antonella BorseroCarlo MeraniMerani & AssociatiJapan 291Nobuaki MukaiMomo-o, Matsuo & NambaMexico 303Roberto Hernández GarcíaCOMAD, SCPeru 315Jaime GrayNavarro Sologuren, Paredes, GrayPortugal 327João Amaral e AlmeidaPaula Bordalo FaustinoSérvulo & AssociadosSpain 335María José Morillas JarilloUniversity of GranadaThe use (and abuse?) of framework agreements in the United Kingdom 349Michael Bowsher QCLaura Elizabeth JohnMonckton ChambersUnited States: an overview of federal and state procurement 361Jerry BrodskyPeckar & Abramson, PCAnti-corruption in public procurement: a survey of the US experience 383Christopher YukinsThe George Washington University Law SchoolPublic-private partnership projects in the United States 401Jaya Sharma4N Consultants IncUruguay 415José Luis Echevarría PetitEchevarría Leunda & Echevarría Petit AbogadosVenezuela 433Luis E AnduezaDespacho de Abogados miembros de Macleod Dixon, SCAbout the authors 443

It helps us understand the essence of what makes for good procurement, and it enables us to learn from achievements and mistakes made all over the world.