In 2020, SAPIENS lead researcher professors Tünde Tátrai and Gyöngyi Vörösmarty published their article titled “Non-Compliance in Public Procurement – Comparative Study under EU Law” in the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, issue 61. The journal represents “a collective effort initiated by an international group aimed at boosting the research in the field of public administration in a country where during the communist regime there was no tradition in this sense.”

Abstract article

There is an expectation towards public policy to ensure efficiency in public procurement (manage public spending properly), ensure accountability and support the social, environmental and other economic and political goals. Increasingly complex regulation raises the question of whether its complexity helps or rather hinders the efficient spending of public money. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion going on about efficiency in public procurement. It investigates non-compliance in public procurement with the aim of revealing types of non-compliance and to structure knowledge on the effects of the remedy system to non-compliance.

The full article is now available on ResearchGate.