Edited by Gabriella M. Racca (University of Turin) & Christopher R. Yukins (George Washington University)
Available online at www.larcier.com
Innovation in public procurement is essential for sustainable and inclusive growth in an increasingly globalized economy. To achieve that potential, both the promises and the perils of innovation must be investigated, including the risks and opportunities of joint procurement across borders in the European Union and the United States.
This in-depth research investigates innovation in public procurement from three different perspectives. First, leading academics and practitioners assess the purchase of innovation, with a particular focus on urban public contracting in smart cities involving meta-infrastructures, public-private partnership arrangements and smart contracts. A second line of inquiry looks for ways to encourage innovative suppliers. Here, the collected authors draw on emerging lessons from the US and Europe, to explore both the costs and the benefits of spurring innovation through procurement. A third perspective looks to various innovations in the procurement process itself, with a focus on the effects of joint and cross-border procurement in the EU and US landscapes. The chapters review new technologies and platforms, the increasingly automated means of selecting suppliers, and the related efficiencies that “big data” can bring to public procurement.
Expanding on research in the editors’ prior volume, Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts: Balancing Corruption Concerns in Public Procurement Internationally (Bruylant 2014), this volume builds on a series of academic conferences and exchanges to address these issues from sophisticated academic, institutional and practical perspectives, and to point the way to future research on the contractual models that are emerging from new procurement technologies.
From Caroline Nicholas’ Review in Public Procurement Law Review (2021)
“Professors Racca and Yukins are to be congratulated on the multidisciplinary approach: policy, legal and administrative issues are discussed alongside technical ones, with business administration and management, and procurement systems analysis and evaluation regularly featuring. . . . This book was written at a time when Covid would probably have been read as a typo for the crow family, but its relevance for pandemic and post-pandemic public procurement could not be greater. It sets out clearly many opportunities for innovation, and the potential pitfalls, and areas where leadership is needed if optimal results are to be generated. As an example of the professionalism of public procurement, which is needed now more than ever, it is a must-read as preparation for next waves of the pandemic, and the much longer road to effective, innovative solutions to meet citizens’ needs.”
Excerpts from the Book (in draft form):
Table of Contents
Foreword – By Jean-Bernard Auby (draft)
Acknowledgements, authors & editors (draft)
Introduction – by Christopher R. Yukins & Gabriella Racca (draft)
Introduction: The Promise and Perils of Innovation in Cross-Border Procurement
Chapter 1: Process Innovation Under the New Public Procurement Directives – by Ivo Locatelli (draft)
Ivo Locatelli discusses digitization, the use of self-declaration via a standard form European Single Procurement Document (ESPD), joint cross-border procurement, and cooperative procurement via institutional bodies (such as Centralised Purchasing Bodies (CPB’s) as some of the main innovations under EU Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement.
Chapter 2: Cooperative Purchasing: A U.S. Perspective – By Justin Kaufman (draft)
Justin Kaufman examines the U.S. perspectives on cooperative purchasing (known in the European Union as “joint procurement”), focusing on the principles supporting cooperative purchasing, its legal basis, and the types of cooperatives that are commonly in use in the United States, their structures and processes, including the issues, concerns, and practicalities that arise in cooperative purchasing in the United States.
Chapter 3: European Joint Cross-border Procurement and Innovation – By Roberto Cavallo Perin and Gabriella M. Racca (draft)
Professor Roberto Cavallo Perin and co-editor Professor Gabriella Racca discuss some of the successful public procurement for innovation (PPI) projects in the EU, e.g., the “Healthy Ageing Public Procurement of Innovations (HAPPI) project.” They argue that central purchasing bodies had already experienced challenges in promoting innovative forms of cross-border administrative cooperation, according to European and national principles, even before the implementation of the 2014 EU Directives on public procurement.
Chapter 6: Public Contracts and Smart Cities – by Jean-Bernard Auby (draft)
Jean-Bernard Auby argues that transformation of the urban infrastructure (meta-infrastructure), digitization and data (smart procurement), and changes in governance (new public-private partnership arrangements), taken together will almost certainly change urban public contracting in smart cities.
Chapter 7: Procurement and Smart Cities: Exploring Examples on Both Sides of the Atlantic – by Laurence Folliot-Lalliot and Peter McKeen (draft)
Laurence Folliot-Lalliot and Peter McKeen explore some of the innovative procurement techniques which have been adopted in cities that are actively promoting smart development in the US and EU. In particular, they focus on the special clauses, concerning data collection, release, protection and dissemination, in contracts for smart cities, highlighting the case of the City of Philadelphia which launched FastFWD, an innovative concept to address some of the city’s most pressing social issues.
Chapter 8: From Works Contracts to Collaborative Contracts: The Challenges of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Public Procurement – by Giuseppe M. Di Giuda & Gabriella M. Racca (draft)
Giuseppe Di Guida and co-editor Gabriella Racca discuss one of the leading examples of innovation in procurement — the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in a cooperative approach to works construction.
Chapter 11: The U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program: A Comparative Assessment – by Crystal Santerre-Funderburg and Christopher Yukins (DRAFT)
Crystal Santerre-Funderburg and co-editor Christopher Yukins assess the use of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to advance technological innovation in the United States.
Chapter 13: Innovation in the Evaluation of Public Procurement Systems – by Lena Diesing & Paulo Magina (draft)
Lena Diesing and Paulo Magina expound on innovation in the evaluation of public procurement systems, such as the OECD Methodology for Assessing the Procurement Systems (MAPS).
Chapter 14: The Pursuit of Streamlined Purchasing: Commercial Items, E-Portals, and Amazon – by Peter McKeen (Draft)
Peter McKeen discusses a future-scenario that is already unfolding: an official ordering goods to meet public requirements mush as a private person would order home supplies from one of the biggest online markets, such as Amazon.
Chapter 16: On the Non-tariff Barriers Obstructing Free Trade in the Transatlantic Defense Procurement Market – by Daniel Schoeni (draft)
Daniel Schoeni shows how it is probably no accident that the two most prominent examples, internationally, of cross-border procurement — in the European Union, and between the States in the United States — arose in the context of stable systems, already politically and economically integrated, e.g., reciprocal defense procurement agreements between the United States and its allies.
Chapter 20: The New Asian Development Bank Procurement Policy and Regulations: Promoting Innovation in Public Procurement in Asia? – by Jellie Molino (draft)
Jellie Molino summarizes the innovations in public procurement that the Asian Development Bank is promoting among its borrowers, through the ADB’s procurement policy and regulations.
Chapter 23: Innovation in the Public Procurement Process in Armenia: A Strategy for EU Integration – by Ani Asatryan (draft)
Ani Asatryan uses the case of Armenia in highlighting the potential role of innovation in public procurement as strategy for the EU integration.
Detailed Table of Contents (draft)