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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

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This creates a regulatory gap —or rather a laissez faire environment—whereby the public sector is allowed to experiment with the adoption of digital technologies without clear checks and balances. And there are attributes or properties influencing the interpretability of a model (eg clarity) for which there are no evaluation metrics (yet?).

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

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The importance and positive contribution of public procurement law to the adequate management of public funds may seem difficult to appreciate in ordinary times, and there are recurrent calls for a reduction of the administrative burden and bureaucracy related to procurement procedures, checks and balances.