This publication is the work of the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director and János Bertók, Deputy Director. Under the supervision of Paulo Magina, Head of GOV’s Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, the report was co-ordinated by Kenza Khachani. The authors are Kenza Khachani and Fabrice Georges; Nawel Djaffar provided key contributions. The report benefited from valuable comments from the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, in particular from Erika Bozzay, Deputy Head of Division, and from GOV’s Director’s Office and the SIGMA programme. Editorial assistance was provided by Andrea Uhrhammer and Michaela Faux.
The report has also been enriched by the dialogue between the public procurement and trade communities (led by the OECD Public Governance Committee through its Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement) and feedback generated during the OECD Open Exchanges Day, “Public Procurement in a Globalised Market: A Magnifying Glass on Trade and Industrial Policies”, held on 24 September 2025 as part of the 2025 OECD Public Procurement Week, with the participation of the Trade and Agricultural Directorate of the OECD. The OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) also provided valuable comments to the report.
The draft report greatly benefitted from guidance and comments by Delegates to the OECD Working Party of the Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement and the OECD Public Governance Committee.