In 2020, SAPIENS lead researchers professors Martin Trybus and Marta Andhov published their article titled “Favouring Small and Medium Sized Enterprises with Directive 2014/24/EU” in the European Procurement and Public-Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL), issue 3. The journal focuses on the two major legal and policy instruments that regulate the relationship between the public and private sector: procurement procedures and public-private partnerships.
Abstract article
This article argues that the four main measures introduced in the 2014 reform of the Procurement Directives to promote Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) cannot be classified as measures favouring SMEs. A measure favours SMEs when it compromises the main objectives of competition, non-discrimination and value for money. The discussion covers the regimes on the division of larger contracts into lots, the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD), minimum turnover requirements, and direct payments to subcontractors.
The full article is now available on SSRN.
Professor Martin Trybus
Professor of European Law and Policy and Director of the Institute of European Law at the University of Birmingham (Birmingham Law School), United Kingdom
Associate Professor Marta Andhov
Associate Professor in public procurement law, PhD Coordinator at the Faculty of Law, the University of Copenhagen. Co-host of the Bestek Public Procurement Podcast
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