New Article on Socially Responsible Public Procurement by Carol Cravero
A new article was just published in the Arctic Review on Law and Politics (vol. 8 (2017)) by Carol Cravero: Socially Responsible Public Procurement and Set-Asides: A Comparative Analysis of the US, Canada and the EU. Here is the abstract: Public procurement can be used to achieve goals other than purely economic ones. Such goals are often referred to as “social linkages”. A preference for social considerations has been gaining ground against the dominant best value for money (BVM) paradigm over the past few decades. In the past, public procurement policies followed the principle of non-discrimination and free competition beyond national boundaries. Today considerations other than (purely economic) BVM have become…
