The Practice of Public Procurement Tendering, Selection and Award

When buying goods or services on behalf of a public authority, procurement officers must translate the buyerÆs needs into tender documents that are clear, lawful, and well-designed. This guide helps them in this task. Rich in practical examples, it is written for procurement practitioners at all levels of government û from the local to the international û including drafters of calls for tenders, controllers, tender evaluators, managers who authorize public expenditure, risk managers and auditors, as well as for students of public procurement law and public administration.

Philipp Kiiver obtained his law degree and his PhD from Maastricht University. From 2003 to 2013 he taught European and comparative constitutional law at the Maastricht law faculty, receiving an appointment as associate professor and serving for two years as associate dean. From 2013 to 2016 he worked as a public procurement lawyer at the European Parliament. In 2016 he joined the legal service of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg.Jakub Kodym was born in 1978 in Prague. After studies in political science and in economics at Charles University in Prague (MA), management studies at Nantes University (MBA), and private sector experience, he joined the EU institutions in 2007 and worked as a CGAP-certified internal auditor for the European Commission and, since 2011, as a procurement officer and a project manager of major logistics contracts for the European Parliament.