SME NEEDS ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Final Report Written by t33 Srl February 2021 Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Directorate C — Investment Unit C.2 — Public Procurement Contact: Katharina Knapton-Vierlich E-mail:
[email protected] European Commission B-1049 Brussels SME NEEDS ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT SME NEEDS ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Final Report Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs 2021 EN Manuscript completed in February 2021 Written by Pietro Celotti, Michele Alessandrini, Alessandro Valenza, Clarissa Amichetti (t33) and Javier Fábregas, with contributions from Cristina Stronati and Paola Le Moglie (t33, public procurement practitioners), Alessandro Lucchetti (legal expert), Lorenzo Palego (t33, national expert for Italy), Jacqueline Brouwer (Reeleaf, national expert for the Netherlands), Jacek Kotrasinski and Tomasz Sokół (EPSEC, national experts for Poland), Liliana Lucaciu and Alexandra Baciu (LIDEEA, national experts for Romania), and Ulf Johansson (AdASTRA, national expert for Sweden). Language review by Timothy Wills. LEGAL NOTICE This document has been prepared for the European Commission however it reflects the views only of the authors, and the European Commission is not liable for any consequence stemming from the reuse of this publication. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://www.europa.eu). PDF ISBN 978-92-76-38214-0 doi: 10.2873/86199 ET-09-21-178-EN-N Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021 © European Union, 2021 The reuse policy of European Commission documents is implemented by the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (OJ L 330, 14.12.2011, p.