Select Contractors Procedures in Europe

Abstract

Using data available on the opentender.eu platform, information for 2022 was compiled regarding the size of the public procurement market, the procedures used in public procurement for construction works in European countries and performance of public procurement system. In order to distinguish groups of European Union countries characterized by a similar structure of public procurement for work, the joining (tree-clustering) algorithm was used. This will provide insights into the strategies of countries in this area. According to cluster analysis, in the largest group of countries the most common procedure is open procedure (on average, 91.03% of the number of procedures). This is a procedure that is the most competitive providing potentially the widest access to participation in public procurement. According to cluster analysis, the most of the analyzed countries have Integrity and Transparency Indicators at good and very good levels.