Joint public procurement and innovation: lessons across borders

Intro -- Titre -- Dans la même collection -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Authors and editors -- Table of contents -- Introduction. - The Promise and Perils of Innovation in Cross-Border Procurement -- 1. Innovation in Procurement: Its Meanings, and How It Is Addressed in this Book -- 1.1. Purchase of innovation -- 1.2. Innovation in Procurement -- 1.3. Innovation in the Procurement Process -- 2. Innovation Through Cross-Border Procurement: Key Constraints -- 2.1. First Constraint: A Friendly Environment -- 2.2. Second Constraint: The Context -- 2.3. Third Constraint: The Centralized Procurement Agencies -- 2.4. Fourth Constraint: Language Barriers and Limited Procurement Professionals -- 3. Conclusion -- Part I - Crossborder Procurement and Innovation -- Chapter 1 - Process Innovation Under the New Public Procurement Directives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Joint Cross-Border Public Procurement -- 2.1. Joint cross-border procurement using a CPB -- 2.2. Joint cross-border procurement between contracting authorities from different Member States -- 2.3. Joint cross-border procurement: the policy dimension -- 3. Cooperative procurement -- 3.1. CPBs and process innovation in public procurement -- 3.2. Current state of play -- 3.3. The systemic relevance of CPBs -- 3.4. The Commission's policy on cooperative procurement -- 4. The digitisation of public procurement -- 4.1. The phases of the transition to e-procurement -- 4.2. Exceptions to the use of electronic communications -- 4.3. The procurement of works and e-procurement -- 4.4. Interoperability of digital solutions across the Single Market and adjustments to technological development -- 4.5. Security levels and electronic signature -- 4.6. E-procurement: A tool to re-engineer the public procurement process -- 5. The European Single Procurement Document (ESPD).