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29 June 2017 | Brussels, Belgium

Public Procurement is a valuable tool that can allow authorities to promote more innovative solutions towards a smarter, greener and more efficient economy.

In 2015, public administrations spent around € 2 trillion on public procurement. According to ITF consolidated data, authorities spent in 2013 approximately € 80 billion on roads. At the same

time, the road industry has been investing significant amounts in developing new technologies and solutions to optimise the design, construction and operation of the network.

As the European organisation representing the road infrastructure industry, the ERF supports the new Public Procurement Directive 2014/24/EC which encourages better procurement practices by gradually moving away from the “cheapest price” principle towards life-cycle costing.

To translate general provisions into tangible practices, it is important that stakeholders in the road infrastructure sector begin a structured and sustained dialogue to understand how the new Directive can become a win-win scenario for both authorities and industry, ultimately benefiting Europe’s citizens.

This is the main theme of the new Position Paper “Promoting Sustainable Roads through Public Procurement’ which aims to encourage a broader reflection on the practical impacts and opportunities present in the Directive from medium to long term perspective.

For its part, the ERF intends through its working group on Sustainability to identify good practices within the industry and Member States as a means of promoting constructive proposals which can help make the road infrastructure sector greener, more innovative and competitive.

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25 September 2015 | Vienna, Austria

On Wednesday 16th September 2016, the ERF, together with its Austrian Member GSV, the Austrian Platform for Mobility, organised an event on ‘The new rules of Public Procurement’ in Vienna.The new framework set up by the European Directives 2014/24/EC and 2014/25/EC on Public Procurement will strongly modify the relations between the contracting authorities and the contractor. These guidelines are intended to ensure a fairer and better quality procurement and should help get away from the lowest bidder principle, which had been preeminent in the past.

Further to the welcome speech of Mario Rohracher, Secretary General of GSV, An Baeyens, from the EC, DG Internal market, industry entrepreneurship and SMEs, made a presentation on the main features of the new Directives, insisting on their importance as a tool for innovation, a key driver for future growth. The transposition of both Directives in the different MS national law (April 2016) and its particular impact for smaller local authorities and SMEs is also a complex issue. Mr. Michael Fruhmann, Procurement Law expert at the Federal Chancellery, gave in-depth information about this related legal implications in Austria.

Christophe Nicodème, Director General of the ERF, highlighted the necessity of a more intense dialogue between public and private partners. After a presentation of some existing procurement best practices, a round table, moderated by Mario Rohracher, allowed the participants to debate and discuss about many issues related to the implementation of the Directives in Austria.

Check out the photos of the event here.

For more information about the event please contact Mr. Christophe Nicodeme.

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