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Study on the measurement of cross-border penetration in the EU public procurement market

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In times of fundamental change and extraordinary investment plans in the EU, public procurement represents a strategic instrument for each Member State’s economic policy. Ensuring efficient and transparent public procurement can contribute to address many of Europe’s major challenges, especially in creating sustainable growth and jobs. Public authorities, by increasing efficiency of public spending to obtain better value for money, can contribute to a more innovative, sustainable, inclusive and competitive economy, while delivering better outcomes for societal and other public policy objectives. In addition, improving procurement is part of the stronger single market strategy pursued by the European Commission. Transparency and competition can lower prices and increase the quality of goods and services purchased by national contracting authorities and create a larger cross-border tendering in the EU. A well-functioning public procurement market, ensuring high level of openness and competition, would benefit European companies and ultimately, all European citizens enjoying a higher quality and effective public spending. Companies bidding for public contracts in their own, as well as other EU Member States, would benefit from improved access to procurement markets. At the same time, these rules aim to create better SME opportunities and ensure reciprocity with trading partners outside the EU. Technological acceleration and digitalisation, changing demographics and evermore interconnected markets strongly affect our societies and economies. In a globalised world, the economic integration brought about by the single market remains a key driver for wealth creation and competitiveness, and therefore our best protection. A clear and precise picture of the cross-border public procurement trends is therefore needed to help the European Commission adopt informed actions and potentially re-shape the applicable legal framework. This study depicts the recent cross-border activity in public procurement in the EU27 and updates the timelines of relevant indicators calculated in two previous studies1 of similar scope. It closely follows the structure and the methodologies of the previous work on the subject, and both take a top-down approach in describing the EU27 cross-border public procurement: first by presenting the macro data that sheds light on the potential size of the market, and second by performing a statistical analysis using micro data to quantify and formally analyse the factors related to cross-border procurement. Additionally, this work presents novel aspects that reflect increased integration arising from the extension of the global value chains. It also contributes to the macro measurement and, to some extent, the micro measurement by presenting a novel quantification of the cross-border public procurement that includes the existing value-added supply chains. Finally, the complete study contains a vast amount of information on the characteristics of the public procurement contract awards registered in the Supplement to the Official Journal from 2016 to 2019, with some sections covering even wider time frame (2009-2016). This executive summary only reports a selected number of these characteristics together with the main key findings.
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ISBN 978-92-76-32317-4
DOI 10.2873/15626
Catalogue number ET-01-21-104-EN-N
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ISSN ISBN 978-92-76-32317-4 DOI 10.2873/15626 Catalogue number ET-01-21-104-EN-N
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