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What are the main governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation?

University of Bristol

Public buyers seeking to procure goods, services or works from the market need to process large amounts of information to choose a responsible provider offering the best possible terms on quality, cost, experience, etc. I will fully develop a proposal for such authority in coming months, in another part of my research project.

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

How to Crack a Nut

Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.