BRUSSELS – The European Commission today, Wednesday, September 9, presented an ambitious public procurement reform proposal, aiming to reduce the fragmentation of the single market in a sector that represents 15% of the gross domestic product.
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Among other things, the community executive intends to create a single digital platform on which public actors can publish tenders and thus attract companies from all over the European Union.
“Our goal is to make public procurement more effective for both buyers and sellers,” explained the Single Market Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné, speaking to a group of European newspapers including Il Sole/24 Ore. “The value of public procurement in Europe is about 2.5 trillion euros per year, in other words more than a seven-year community budget. This reform could have a substantial economic impact.”
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Concretely, the regulation, which must be approved by Parliament and Council, replaces three directives dating back to the last decade.
The goal is to simplify the rules as well as to reduce costs for public actors and private companies. At the heart of the simplification is the creation of a digital platform accessible to all European companies.
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