Contents:
Foreword : the OECD’s work on public procurement : reshaping the global agenda / Paulo Magina -- I. Life-cycle costing in public procurement -- Life-cycle costing in public procurement : colloquium / Stéphane Saussier and Christopher H. Bovis -- Life-cycle thinking in EU public procurement : moving beyond a simple ‘buzz word’ / Dacian C. Dragos and Bogdana Neamtu -- LCC and GPP : competing or complementary approaches? / Áurea Adell Querol, Bettina Schaefer and Josep Esquerrà i Roig -- II. Calculating costs and savings of public procurement -- Calculating the costs and savings of public procurement : colloquium / Giancarlo Spagnolo and Andreas H. Glas -- Challenges and methods for cost analysis in public procurement : lessons from the procurement of public transportation services in the Stockholm region / André Åslundh -- Reference prices and Italian spending review / Fabrizio Sbicca -- III. Corruption and probity in public procurement -- Corruption and probity in public procurement : colloquium / Tünde Tátrai and Francesco Decarolis -- Challenges in public procurement : corruption and probity in public procurement / Marion Chabrost -- Municipal procurement of social care : opportunistic behavior opportunities / Niels Uenk, Jan Telgen and Madelon Wind -- IV. Public procurement and international trade agreements : CETA, TTIP and beyond -- Public procurement and international trade agreements : CETA, TTIP and beyond : colloquium / Christopher R. Yukins and Mihály Fazekas -- Growing significance of regional trade agreements in opening public procurement / Jean Heilman Grier -- Transatlantic trade and public procurement openness : going beyond the tip of the iceberg / Lucian Cernat and Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova.