New Podcast Episodes Every Month!

#15 Access to public contracts for citizens’ initiatives and social enterprises & how to conference

Jan 6, 2022

In this episode, Willem & Marta discuss access to public contracts for citizens' initiatives and social enterprises. They delve into the hurdles they face, the legal possibilities for contracting authorities to stimulate them, and future options to extend those options. For the finale, they discuss how to conference.

Host(s)

The English episodes of Bestek – the Public Procurement Podcast are hosted by Marta Andhov, who is an Associate Professor in public procurement law at the Faculty of Law, the University of Copenhagen and a founding member of the Horizon 2020 Sustainability and Procurement in International, European, and National Systems (SAPIENS) project; and Willem Janssen, an Associate Professor in European and Dutch Public Procurement Law at the law department of Utrecht University, and a researcher at the Centre for Public Procurement and RENFORCE.

 Share Episode

Subscribe

BESTEK - The Public Procurement Podcast
BESTEK - The Public Procurement Podcast
dr. Willem A. Janssen and dr. Marta Andhov

Podcast about public procurement & law. Hosts: dr. Willem Janssen & dr. Marta Anhov

About This Episode

In this episode, Willem & Marta discuss access to public contracts for citizens’ initiatives and social enterprises. They delve into the hurdles they face, the legal possibilities for contracting authorities to stimulate them, and future options to extend those options. For the finale, they discuss how to conference.

0:00 Agenda
2:09 Why are citizens’ initiatives and social enterprises are relevant?
6:41 The Main
6:41  Preliminary questions: Economic operator? Public Contract?
12:29 What are the problems regarding citizens’ initiatives and social enterprises?
14:13 What are the possibilities?
25:05 Solutions to access to public contracts
32:54  Dessert
32:54  Why Conference? How to Conference?
38:38  Room for Improvement in the Way Conferences are Held?

Related Episodes

#32 Sustainable Public Procurement in the US & Publishing in the American Journals

In this episode, Marta and Willem delve into the complex and critical world of US public procurement and sustainability with Steven Schooner from George Washington University Law School. They ask intriguing questions such as: What does the landscape of public procurement look like across different development tiers in the US, and how does sustainability fit into this picture? Why are executive orders and market integration pivotal in shaping sustainable procurement practices? How can we effectively operationalize regulations to create a more sustainable and efficient system of government contract law? Finally, for the dessert, they switch gears to compare American and European legal scholarship and publishing cultures.

#31 Development Aid and Procurement & Becoming a Leader

In this episode, Annamaria La Chimia (Nottingham University) and Marta discuss the fascinating world of development aid and procurement. What does this world look like? Where do interesting procurement questions pop up? Why should all of us know more about this international side of public procurement? Tune in now to learn more. In the dessert section, they discuss leadership in academia. What does it mean in the context of PPLG and academia more broadly, and how is it relevant to create an even better academic world?

0 Comments