E-Procurement

Daniel Veit and Jan Huntgeburth
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Daniel Veit: Universität Augsburg
Jan Huntgeburth: Universität Augsburg

Chapter 7 in Foundations of Digital Government, 2014, pp 101-118 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract E-procurement – defined as the use of the internet in public procurement – aims to accomplish a complex set of economic, political, and social goals within a complex legal framework. The implementation of fully electronic processes between contracting authorities and providers is a hard, long road in particular as the majority of public contracts in the EU are awarded by state and local authorities. This chapter provides a general understanding of e-procurement in practice by introducing the legal framework and the technological and organizational opportunities of implementation. The European Commission has just recently proposed fully electronic procurement processes by 2016. As we will discuss in this chapter, the success of this endeavor will highly depend on the efficiency, equity, and effectiveness trade-offs made by all legally independent contracting authorities across Europe.

Keywords: European Union; Public Administration; Public Procurement; Restricted Procedure; Procurement Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38511-7_7

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