S4 E8 - Pinelopi Giosa

Bid rigging is a grave competition law infringement that significantly compromises public procurement by causing artificially inflated prices and preventing public authorities from securing the most advantageous terms for public funds. In this lecture series, join Dr Pinelopi Giosa as she takes us through a discussion based on her recently published monograph “Competition Law and Collusion in Public Procurement” (Routledge 2025). It utilises auction theory as a benchmark to assess how the design of the EU's public procurement system under Directive 2014/24/EU creates vulnerabilities to collusive practices.