EU Public Procurement
The unit on EU public procurement is concerned with all dimensions of EU public procurement law and policy and its implementation in the EU Member States. As well as undertaking doctrinal and comparative law work on EU and national laws, the unit has recently undertaken a number of empirical studies on the implementation and effect of EU rules in this area.
The unit is co-lead by Dr Peter Trepte and Dr Paula Faustino. Peter is currently researching into debarment issues under the EU legislation, whilst Paula is looking into an EU country case study regarding the impact of anti-corruption regulation on public procurement procedures. Together they are working on a new edition of Peter's leading EU text, Public Procurement in the EU: a Practitioner’s Guide (OUP, 2nd ed. 2007).
The former head of this unit, Professor Sue Arrowsmith, is the author of the leading text on EU and UK procurement law, The Law of Public and Utilities Procurement (3rd ed., Vols.1&2, 2014-2018; Sweet and Maxwell). She was closely involved in development of EU law and policy as a member of the European Commission’s Advisory Committee for the Opening Up of Public Procurement for nearly twenty years.
Other books published in the area of the Unit include Sue Arrowsmith (ed.) (with Peter Kunzlik) Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement Law: New Directive and New Directions (2009; CUP) and Sue Arrowsmith (ed.) (with Steen Treumer) Competitive Dialogue in EU Procurement Law (2012, CUP).
Recently completed PhD projects
- Approach to award criteria in EU Member States
- Practical application in the UK of the EU rules on adjustments to concluded contracts
- Competitive dialogue in Spain and Portugal: legal framework and practical application
- Competitive dialogue in the UK in the context of Public-private Partnership Procurement (PPPs)
- The EU rules on electronic auctions
- The application of EU procurement rules to international organizations in the field of defence procurement
- Influences of the EU procurement directives on national regimes – a case study of the UK, Netherlands and Belgium.
More information
For further information contact Dr Peter Trepte or Dr Paula Faustino.