Procurement by International Organizations
A Global Administrative Law Perspective

Investigates the relationship between international organizations and private subjects under the unexplored perspective of procurement by international organizations.

Elisabetta Morlino (Author)

9781108402019, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 May 2022

525 pages, 4 b/w illus. 4 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.697 kg

Winner, 2020 ICON-S Book Prize, International Society of Public Law

How do international organizations procure goods, services and works to carry out their institutional mission? How does this procurement activity affect individuals? Does the procurement relationship between international organizations and private subjects bring an even distribution of rights and duties? Are international organizations accountable to private subjects and states when allocating their resources through procurement? The book explores the complex phenomenon of procurement by international organizations from the point of view of the relationship between international organizations and private subjects. It provides, for the first time, a systematization and conceptualization of the emerging rules and practices of procurement by international organizations. It also identifies the international political dynamics and interplay of interests underlying these rules and practices. In doing so, it shows how these dynamics shape the exercise of international public authority over private subjects, and the scope of private subjects' rights vis-à-vis international organizations.

1. Introduction
2. Procurement and international organizations: a conceptual map
3. The institutional roots of change: from private negotiations to public tenders
4. The regulatory architecture
5. Procurement contracts and limits to the contractual freedom of private parties and states
6. Contracts and applicable law: blurring the lines between public and private law
7. Accountability in procurement
8. How the interplay of interests shapes procurement
9. Global administrative law for procurement of international organizations: development and limits.

Subject Areas: Arbitration, mediation & alternative dispute resolution [LNAC5], Private international law & conflict of laws [LBG], International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International business [KJK], United Nations & UN agencies [JPSN1]