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Favouring Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises with Directive 2014/24/EU

By Marta Andhov

Oct 20, 2020

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In 2020, professors Martin Trybus and Marta Andhov published their article titled “Favouring Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises with Directive 2014/24/EU” in the European Procurement and Public-Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL), issue 3. The journal focuses on the two major legal and policy instruments that regulate the relationship between the public and private sector: procurement procedures and public-private partnerships. 

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This article argues that the four main measures introduced in the 2014 reform of the Procurement Directives to promote Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) cannot be classified as measures favouring SMEs. A measure favours SMEs when it compromises the main objectives of competition, non-discrimination, and value for money. The discussion covers the regimes on the division of larger contracts into lots, the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD), minimum turnover requirements, and direct payments to subcontractors.

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