La contratación pública: evolución europea de una estrategia

Abstract

The strategic perspective of public procurement requires a paradigm shift that puts procurement at the service of other public policy objectives. This new vision is not a recent development, but has been taking shape within the framework of a European Union that is striving to combine the aspirations of the common market with the objectives of a social and sustainable Europe. Thus, step by step, environmental and social clauses have made their way into public contracts; firstly, sporadically and promptly; secondly, through a systematic effort to analyse how they fit into the different phases of the tendering procedure; and finally, through a clear proposal in favour of strategic public procurement. In this paper we approach, from a historical perspective and within the scope of the Union, the construction and characteristics of strategic public procurement.

Keywords

• social clauses
• public procurement
• environmental clauses
• public purchasing
• strategic public procurement