Anti-competitive practices and public procurement: the perspective of a competition authority

Abstract

The importance that public procurement has acquired has been linked to its greater technical complexity and its link to competition law, which are two of the most obvious characteristics of its current regulation, so that, although they are clearly differentiated regulatory areas, they are intimately intertwined with each other as evidence that a significant number of cases resolved by Competition Authorities arise in public procurement files.

This paper aims to bring both regulations closer together by offering both the technicians who deal with public procurements and the potential bidders the singular and equally specialized vision of the competition regulations to facilitate a coherent and harmonized application of both legal disciplines.

Keywords:

Anti-competitive practices, public procurement, collusion, restriction of competition Bid-Rigging, abuse of dominant position, unfair competition

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