International Public Procurement

Preface 5 Renaud Sorieul UNCITRAL Introduction: the global challenges of international public procurement 7 Roberto Hernández García COMAD, SC The UNCITRAL Model Law: an example for the global community 19 Caroline Nicholas UNCITRAL Public procurement in the European Union 35 John Grayston Peter Trepte Grayston & Company The fight against corruption in public procurement: an introduction to best practices 57 Michelle Greenwood James M Klotz Miller Thomson LLP Public Procurement in Francophone Africa 75 Aboubacar Fall African Development Bank Marc Frilet Frilet – Société d’Avocats Public procurement: the World Bank system 101 Marc Frilet Florent Lager Frilet – Société d’Avocats Public procurement reforms and development in the Eastern and Southern Africa region 113 Stephen R Karangizi Isaac Ndahiro COMESA Brazil 131 Júlio César Bueno Ricardo Pagliari Levy Pinheiro Neto Advogados Bulgaria 151 Nina Boteva Anna Dodova Boteva & Kantutis Law Office Canada 167 Derek Leschinsky Gerry Stobo Borden Ladner Gervais LLP China 189 Richard W Pearse Vedder Price PC Colombia 203 Gonzalo Suárez-Beltrán Roberto Laguado-Giraldo Suárez-Beltrán & Associates France 217 Marc Frilet Florent Lager Frilet – Société d’Avocats Germany 231 Rouven F Bodenheimer Claus H Lenz Lungerich & Lenz, Rechtsanwälte Greece 253 Konstantinos E Katsigiannis CE Katsigiannis & Associates 1886 India 267 Sumeet Kachwaha Kachwaha & Partners Italy 279 Antonella Borsero Carlo Merani Merani & Associati Japan 291 Nobuaki Mukai Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba Mexico 303 Roberto Hernández García COMAD, SC Peru 315 Jaime Gray Navarro Sologuren, Paredes, Gray Portugal 327 João Amaral e Almeida Paula Bordalo Faustino Sérvulo & Associados Spain 335 María José Morillas Jarillo University of Granada The use (and abuse?) of framework agreements in the United Kingdom 349 Michael Bowsher QC Laura Elizabeth John Monckton Chambers United States: an overview of federal and state procurement 361 Jerry Brodsky Peckar & Abramson, PC Anti-corruption in public procurement: a survey of the US experience 383 Christopher Yukins The George Washington University Law School Public-private partnership projects in the United States 401 Jaya Sharma 4N Consultants Inc Uruguay 415 José Luis Echevarría Petit Echevarría Leunda & Echevarría Petit Abogados Venezuela 433 Luis E Andueza Despacho de Abogados miembros de Macleod Dixon, SC About the authors 443

It helps us understand the essence of what makes for good procurement, and it enables us to learn from achievements and mistakes made all over the world.