Ways Forward in Public Procurement

Jolien Grandia () and Leentje Volker ()
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Jolien Grandia: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Leentje Volker: University of Twente

Chapter 8 in Public Procurement, 2023, pp 137-150 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter summarizes the topics discussed in this public procurement book. It subsequently discusses developments and the ways in which public procurement is moving forward and has increasingly become a strategic asset for societal change. The move toward more value-driven, smart, life cycle-oriented, and relational ecosystem procurement processes has implications for the public procurement practices of the future, requiring more flexible and adaptive governance, integration of public value, different capabilities and competences, and a rebalancing of the different perspectives on public procurement. This chapter and book finish by explaining the need for change agents to emerge and challenge the reader to become one and bring public procurement into a new era and fully utilize its potential for achieving public value.

Keywords: Trends and developments; Change agents; Value-driven procurement; Sustainable procurement; Relational ecosystems; Life cycle orientation; Governance; Public value; Procurement capabilities and competences; Multifaceted public procurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-18490-1_8

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