Antitrust Chronicle® – Public Procurement

Dear Readers,

The interaction between competition law and public procurement has increasingly been in the international spotlight in recent years. Through competitive public procurement and bidding, governments ideally can procure goods and services at market price (saving public funds), encourage small and medium-sized enterprises, and foster innovation, among other policy goals.

As authors in this month’s edition of the CPI Chronicle note, “governments around the world spend an estimated $