Sustainable Public Procurement Law Course

Welcome to the SPP Law 101 course. It is an introductory open source course that discusses aspects of sustainability and EU Public Procurement law. Within this course, we offer you various types of learning materials, including 14 introductory videos, podcasts, and open-access reading materials to deepen your knowledge.

This course will focus on answering the following questions:

  • what is sustainable public procurement

  • what are the aims, objectives, principles and rules of public procurement law

  • what are the various stages of the tender process, and how does it affect the design of public contract

  • how to incorporate sustainability considerations into tenders and contracts

  • how to draft contractual clauses and modify  a public contract

  • What is the role of subcontracting 

  • Is SPP mandatory or facultative

YouTube

The videos include subtitles translated into several languages. You can watch the videos below. To access the rest of the materials please open the videos on youtube and browse through the description boxes.

Marta Andhov

Marta Andhov

SAPIENS Lead Researcher

This course is created and led by Marta Andhov, who is an associate professor in public procurement law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Currently, she is also a: leader of the Purchase Power – Sustainable Public Procurement Through Private Law Enforcement Purple project, member of the Connecting COnsumers and producers to REbalance farmers’ position through AmbassaDOrs Trainings (COCOREADO), and co-host of the popular Bestek Public Procurement Podcast, which explores public procurement law issues through informal yet in-depth discussions.  In the past, Marta has provided her insight and expertise to key projects for the European Commission, EU Parliament, and Danish Institute for Human Rights. She contributed to the professionalisation of the procurement sector through collaboration, teaching and training at multiple universities, national procurement agencies and various institutions and public authorities (e.g. Dansk Initiativ For Etisk Handel, Municipality of Copenhagen), including a series of seminars/training for the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (Italy) and Procurement Regulation Postgraduate Diploma at King’s College, (United Kingdom).  

Special thanks go to the team of researchers (Michal Kania, Magdalena Socha, Sven Mikulic, Nadia Sava, Federica Muscaritoli, Giulia Botta, Natalia Spataru, Chiara Falvo, Aura Iurascu, Enrique Carreras) who participated in translating this educational material with the intention of making it accessible to the broadest array of interested stakeholders. 

Production of these educational materials has been sponsored by

dreyers