II International Public Procurement Conference
September 21-23, 2006
Rome, Italy

ADVANCING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: Practices, Innovation and Knowledge-Sharing

Driven by demand for further control over public spending and more efficient acquisition processes, procurement has become a key public function. Significant technological changes, international trade and global competition have forced governments and public institutions to extend policy interests beyond cost minimization, and to pursue new challenges including innovation, competition, transparency and reforms. Further, policy makers have become aware of the role of public procurement for many other socio-economic purposes. Crossing both economics and business, public procurement has raised the interest of practitioners directly involved in the management of purchases and with academic researchers to answer key questions, explore new issues, and to discuss an extensive range of topics. The first International Public Procurement Conference (IPPC1), held in Fort Lauderdale ( Florida ) in 2004, brought together academics and professionals from many countries to share best practices and to discuss critical issues. The fertile mixture of experiences, interests and contributions that emerged in that first event represents an important basis upon which to build the 2nd International Conference of Public Procurement (IPPC2) . The 2nd Conference aims at extending and deepening the topics of major interests that arose from IPPC1, by selecting theoretical, empirical, practical and institutional contributions on a variety of topics.

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