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European Journal of Public Procurement Markets

An interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge on public procurement, public markets, regulation and innovation. Published by APMEP — Portuguese Society of Public Markets.

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Current Issue

New developments on innovative
and sustainable public procurement

The Sixth Issue gathers contributions on contract design, innovation procurement in big science, MSME participation in public tenders, and the strategic dimensions of public contracting.

Issue VI May 2026 · Open Access

Innovative & Sustainable Public Procurement

Five research papers covering contract modification frameworks, project complexity in EU construction procurement, innovation procurement at big science organisations, MSME participation in Trinidad and Tobago, and a strategic-but-suboptimal reading of public procurement.

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Research Papers
i

Contract Modification: Circle Squaring or Performance-Based Contracting?

L. Valadares Tavares
ii

Project Complexity and Public Procurement Design: A Construction Procurement Framework under EU Directive 2014/24/EU and the Portuguese Public Contracts

António Aguiar Costa
iii

Innovation Procurement in Big Science Organizations: Legal Frameworks and Enabling Conditions

Peggy Wu, Antonio Bonucci, Jozef Kubinec and Dirk Jordan
iv

Increasing the Participation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Public Procurement in Trinidad and Tobago

Gustavo Piga and Amoi Romeo
v

A Strategic but Suboptimal Public Procurement: It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature

Marko Turudić
Archive

Past issues, all open access

Five previous issues spanning the transposition of the 2014 EU Directives, Covid-19 emergency procurement, sustainability and innovation in construction, and circular procurement.

V Fifth Issue Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement — selected papers from the International Conference on Circular and Innovative Construction Procurements, Turin, 6 June 2023.

Research and Policy Papers

  • A scientometric analysis of ESG criteria implementation in the construction industry — Valentina Villa, Paola Cavallaro and Angelo Ciribini
  • The FSR and Public Procurement — Giulia Benvenuti
  • Directive 2023/1791 EED: A Step Closer to Mandatory Green Public Procurement Criteria Through Sectorial Legislation — Alexandru Buftic
  • The more recent wave of mandatory public procurement rules: sustainability rhymes with resilience — Roberto Caranta
  • A duty under customary international law and a condition for funding under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility: the genealogy of the "do no significant harm" principle — Leila Kentache
  • A New Approach to Public Contracting of Sustainable Construction Using Innovation Partnership — Luís Valadares Tavares
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IV Fourth Issue Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement — selected papers from the 5th European Conference, Lisbon, 5–6 May 2022.

Research and Policy Papers

  • Towards mandatory SPP for buildings/works — Roberto Caranta
  • A multicriteria model to evaluate tenders for green procurement of public works — Luís Valadares Tavares, José Antunes Ferreira and Alexandre Ricardo
  • The interplay between EU public procurement and human rights in global supply chains: Lessons from the Italian legal context — Giulia Botta
  • Promoting sustainable public procurement through economic policy tools: From moral suasion to nudging — Désirée Klingler and Steven Schooner
  • Sustainability public procurement using new procedures of the 2014 Directives — François Lichère

Case Studies

  • The criteria for establishing and maintaining an optimal governance model for public procurement — Nikola Komšić
  • Proposal for optimal governance model of central procurement in Slovakia — Jozef Kubinec
  • Environmental and economic benefits of green public procurement through the Bilan Carbone and Life Cycle Costing methodologies: a case study for Arpa Piemonte — Arianna Sica
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III Third Issue Public Contracting as a Strategy for Economic Recovery from the Challenges of Covid-19.

Opening Paper

  • Public procurement in emergency situations — José F. F. Tavares, Honourable Judge and President of the Tribunal de Contas

Research and Policy Papers

  • Public Policies for Procurement under COVID-19 — Luís Valadares Tavares and Pedro Arruda
  • Striking a Balance Between EU Competition Law and Public Procurement Law: Analysing the CJEU attempt in the Vossloh Laeis case — Vittoria Moccia
  • Covid-19 — the impetus for public service innovation. Advancing the shift towards social procurement — Natalia Spataru and Lorenzo Cioni
  • Public procurement and Covid-19 in Portugal: the particular case of the acquisition of institutional publicity related to the pandemic disease — Marco Caldeira
  • Challenges in public procurement before, during, and after the COVID-19 crisis: Selected theses on a competency-based approach — Michael Eßig, Christian von Deimling and Andreas Glas
  • Competitive Public Procurement during COVID-19: The Unique Political and Policy Experience of the United States — Clifford McCue, Emily Boykin and Eric Prier

Case Studies

  • IT Procurement Case Study of the Japanese Government within the Institutional Theory Context — Kanasaki Kentaro
  • Direct Award, the New Normal in times of Covid-19 — Catarina Pinto Correia
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II Second Issue December 2019.

Research and Policy Papers

  • Public Procurement of Innovation: A Cultural Challenge! — Luís Valadares Tavares
  • Utilizing Open Data: A Primer for Public Procurement Research — Csaba Csáki, Clifford P. McCue and Eric Prier
  • The Concept of Economic Operator and the Setting of Limitations to Awarding by Lots in Public Procurement in the Light of the Portuguese Public Contracts Code — Nuno Cunha Rodrigues
  • The Impact of Professionalization in Public Procurement — Maria Antonietta Coppola and Gustavo Piga

Case Studies

  • Good practices in public procurement of engineering services — Alexis de los Reyes Darias
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I First Issue Transposition of the 2014 Directives — October 2018.

Research and Policy Papers

  • Transposition of the EU Public Procurement Directives 2014 in Austria — Bernt Elsner and Ruth Bittner
  • Transposition of the 2014 European Directives on public procurement by France — Kawthar Ben Khelil
  • Transposition of the 2014 European Directives on public procurement by Spain — Jaime Pintos Santiago
  • Transposition of the 2014 European Directives on public procurement by Portugal: woes and expectations — Luís Valadares Tavares
  • The transposition of the 2014 Directives on public procurement into the Italian law: a challenge for a deep reform of the Italian public procurement system — Valentina Guidi
  • Public procurement culture after accession to the EU — The case of a Central European transition country — Tunde Tatrai
  • Centralization vs. Bundling: The Victory of an Italian David against an Italian Goliath — Gustavo Piga

Case Studies

  • The Amagasaki Pilot Social Impact Bond in Japan — Participation of SMEs in Public Markets — Shinji Hosomi
  • The Art and the Science in Winning Public-Sector e-Procurement Contracts particularly by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises — Keith White-Hunt, Philip Norman and Charlotte Norman
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Editorial Policy

Mission, scope and invitation to authors

The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets is strictly peer-reviewed; each submitted paper is assessed by at least two reviewers under a double-blind procedure.

Its mission is to contribute to an interdisciplinary study of public procurement and public markets, presenting high-level scientific results across economics, law, regulation, technology and policy.

Key Areas of Interest

AEconomics of public markets and their major trends
BDigital economics, innovation and public markets
CRegulation, monitoring and evaluation of public contracting
DInternational agreements and cross-border public procurement
ELegal framework and implementation of the 2014 EU Directives
FElectronic public procurement, e-platforms and interoperability
GTechnology management, e-Government and ICT-based public management
HNew standards and software for public contracting (BIM, etc.)
ICompetition, transparency and corruption prevention
JPerformance indicators and performance-based contracting
KAward criteria, MEAT, quality/price ratio and life cycle costing
LCentralisation and economies of scale in public contracting
MOpenness of public markets and SME participation
NRisk assessment and contract execution risk mitigation
OInnovation, sustainability and social cohesion in new procedures
PComparative studies of legal frameworks and public markets
QEducation and training for the improvement of public markets

Invitation to Authors

Four sections welcome contributions. Editorial decisions within eight weeks.

A

Research Papers

New and advanced research, with priority given to interdisciplinary developments.

B

Policy Papers

High-level contributions on public policies — comparative analyses, surveys, evaluations.

C

Case Studies

Applied studies of good practices on relevant issues for public markets.

D

Dialogues

Focused contributions embracing multiple disciplinary perspectives on a specific topic.

Direction

Chief Editors

Leading the editorial direction across three European institutions.

Chief Editor
Prof. Luís Valadares Tavares
IST, University of Lisbon & Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, University Lusíada — Portugal
Chief Editor
Prof. Gustavo Piga
University of Rome Tor Vergata — Italy
Chief Editor
Prof. Roberto Caranta
University of Torino — Italy
Editorial Board

34 members from leading institutions worldwide

Afonso d'Oliveira MartinsRector, University Lusíada — Portugal
Alessandro AncaraniUniversity of Catania — Italy
Andrea AppolloniUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata — Italy
Annalisa CastelliUniversity of Cassino and Southern Lazio — Italy
Bernardo NicolettiUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata — Italy
Christopher BovisUniversity of Hull — United Kingdom
Fernando SilvaIMPIC — Portugal
Frank BrunettaUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata — Canada
Giancarlo De StefanoConsip — Italy
Gonçalo MatiasPortuguese Catholic University — Portugal
Jaime Pintos SantiagoObservatorio de Contratación Pública — Spain
Jakob EdlerManchester University — United Kingdom
Jan JackholtEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and Development — Sweden
José Antunes FerreiraUniversity of Lisbon — Portugal
José Ramón ArboledasIESE Business School, University of Navarra — Spain
Keith White-HuntNational Centre for Academic Accreditation, Ministry of Education — Saudi Arabia
Manuel RicouUniversity of Lisbon — Portugal
Mário Aroso de AlmeidaPortuguese Catholic University — Portugal
Matthias EinmahlFachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung — Germany
Miguel Assis RaimundoUniversity of Lisbon — Portugal
Nicola DimitriUniversity of Siena — Italy
Nuno Cunha RodriguesUniversity of Lisbon — Portugal
Paolo BuccirossiLear — Italy
Pedro Costa GonçalvesUniversity of Coimbra — Portugal
Pedro TellesSwansea University — United Kingdom
Rajesh ShakyaThe World Bank
Robert AndersonWorld Trade Organization
Rui Dias FerreiraVortal — Portugal
Rui MacheteCMS-RPA — Portugal
Rui MedeirosPortuguese Catholic University — Portugal
Rui PenaCMS-RPA — Portugal
Sara Castelo RuanoTesera de Hospitalidad
Stéphane SaussierIAE Paris — France
Toshihiko IshiharaKwansei Gakuin University — Japan
Tünde TátraiCorvinus University of Budapest — Hungary