#35 Resurgence of buy local policies & making public procurement law interesting

BESTEK - The Public Procurement Podcast

In this episode, Marta and Willem explore the resurgence and presence of buy local policies in the public procurement context. They discuss it broadly on a global scale, and then zoom in on specific buy local implementation issues when it comes to the procurement of food by public authorities. What to do with criteria and condition related to zero miles, EU geographical indicators, time of delivery or short supply chains? For dessert, they share how they overcome the initial hesitation of professionals and students when it comes to public procurement law as a field of study and expertise. Read more about it in this study: M. Andhov, M. Kania, S. Mikulic 'How to Procure Sustainable Food and Include Farmers in Public Procurement? - Legal Constraints and Opportunities' (via: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4826088) TABLE OF CONTENT 0:00 Entrée2:23 Agenda 6:35 The Main 6:35 Historical context of buying-local policies10:47 Diverse viewpoints on procuring locally across the globe18:17 What about cultural exemptions?28:30 Considering geographical proximity in public procurement34:36 Balancing the competing demands (non-discrimination vs sustainability)47:41 Dessert 47:41 Making public procurement law interesting for students51:13 Outro Your Title Goes Here Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings. Episode Transcript Willem Janssen 00:00 Welcome to Bestek, the public procurement Podcast. Today, Marta and I are talking about resurgence of buying local policies and making public procurement law interesting. Bestek Voice 00:16 Welcome to Bestek, the public procurement podcast. In this podcast, Dr Willem Janssen and Dr Marta Andhov discuss public procurement law issues, their love of food and academic life. In each episode, Willem, Marta and their guests search for answers to intriguing public procurement questions. This is Bestek. Let's dish off public procurement law. Willem Janssen 00:41 Hello. Marta Andhov 00:41 Hello. Willem Janssen 00:42 Sorry. I mean just, I'm very excited to talk to you today again, so maybe I was being too enthusiastic for that. How are you Marta? Marta Andhov 00:50 There is nothing like too enthusiastic. I'm quite good. Thank you. It's, I enjoy that we have a chance right now to come back a bit to our podcasting, we need to say... Willem Janssen 01:02 You're still located in the US? Marta Andhov 01:04 I'm still currently in US, the last three, four days. So that also probably contributed slightly to our delay in publishing some podcasts, recording some podcasts. So apologies to our listeners, we will try to do better, but academic life, I think, took over for both of us in a different way. Willem Janssen 01:28 Academic life, a new baby on my side, this all and massive missed deadlines and stuff, so podcasting got a bit lost. Marta Andhov 01:38 I'm still waiting for chapter for you. On that note, yeah. Willem Janssen 01:41 Did you have to do this publicly? I have been working on the chapter. It's looking really nice, Marta Andhov 01:48 Okay, okay Willem, we're not washing our dirty laundry publicly. I just thought that was my segway. Okay, what we're talking about today, tell us. Willem Janssen 01:56 I can't believe you did this online. Okay, live on air. Anyways, we're here looking forward to, well, we can record a podcast episode about a chapter. You know, that would be really nice. We're not going to talk about the book your editing, but only about the chapter that I wrote, because you publicly shamed me. Marta Andhov 02:15