IMPROVING ACCESS OF SMES TO THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MARKETS

Daniela Mitran

Internal Auditing and Risk Management, 2013, vol. 30, issue 1, 265-272

Abstract: This paper focuses on the issue of participation of Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in public procurement in Romania, taking into account that this market it is a key factor for stimulating economic growth, contribute to economic recovery, job creation and innovation. SMEs in Romania receive only 27% of public procurement. This percentage is lower in relation to both EU average of 38 %, and with their own contribution to the economy (45% of gross value added). This paper provides overviews of the main barriers to entry for SMEs into the public procurement markets, as well as a series of measures designed to support their access to a greater proportion. Facilitating the access of small and medium-sized enterprises in public procurement markets can help them to exploit the huge potential of creating jobs, growth and innovation, while allowing contracting authorities to widen the supplier base, which has positive effect of increased competition for public contracts.

Keywords: public procurement; small and medium-sized enterprises; barriers to entry; contracting authorities; tenders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://aimr.univath.ro/download/875_Nr_2(30)_2013_265-272.pdf (application/pdf)
http://aimr.univath.ro/en/article/IMPROVING-ACCESS ... ENT-MARKETS~875.html (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ath:journl:v:30:y:2013:i:1:p:265-272

Access Statistics for this article

Internal Auditing and Risk Management is currently edited by Emilia Vasile

More articles in Internal Auditing and Risk Management from Athenaeum University of Bucharest Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Cosmin Catalin Olteanu and Emilia Vasile ().