Sustainable Public Procurement: Life-Cycle Costing in the New EU Directive Proposal

The paper discusses a new tool to be used in public procurement by contracting authorities, namely Life-Cycle Costing (LCC), in light of the efforts made at the EU level to promote green and sustainable public procurement. The authors analyse the provisions concerning life-cycle costing comprised in...

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Published in:European procurement & public private partnership law review 2013-01, Vol.8 (1), p.19-30
Main Authors: Dragos, Dacian, Neamtu, Bogdana
Format: Article
Language:eng ; ger
Subjects:
Climate change
Costs
Emissions
Freshwater resources
Government purchasing
Innovations
Public sector
Purchasing
Sustainability
Trade barriers
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Summary:The paper discusses a new tool to be used in public procurement by contracting authorities, namely Life-Cycle Costing (LCC), in light of the efforts made at the EU level to promote green and sustainable public procurement. The authors analyse the provisions concerning life-cycle costing comprised in the proposal of the European Commission for the new Public Procurement Directives. Several obstacles regarding the implementation of life-cycle costing are discussed alongside with a brief analysis of best practices in this field from other countries outside the EU. The article concludes that life-cycle costing has the potential to be used or integrated as an award criterion, which will better advance the quest for sustainable development (defined both in terms of environmental as well as social objectives).
ISSN:2194-7376
2194-7384