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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

The Model Law allows sustainability to be promoted through procurement via qualification criteria (under article 9, which expressly allows the procuring entity to impose environmental qualifications, and ethical and other standards that could include fair trade requirements).

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

And those difficulties and clashes are exacerbated by several layers of multi-level governance and decision-making in public procurement, which create additional scope for conflict and contestation in the process of translating general legislative and policy goals into decisions on the design of public tenders and public contracts.