Kurze Einleitung:

Public procurement refers to the regulation and governance process ‘by which public authorities, such as government departments or local authorities, purchase work, goods or services from companies’. It applies to anything from purchasing footballs for public schools, to the supply of medical equipment, to large- scale infrastructure tenders. Over the last decades public procurement has gained in importance. Privatisation of public production and outsourcing of formerly public services increased the share of GDP spent via public procurement (Hartlapp, 2020, p 77). The COVID- 19 crisis demonstrated the importance of public buying to deliver services and implement policies that directly affect citizens. Not least, the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility boosted public investment and debates about economic sovereignty, underlining the role of states’ strategies and practices when purchasing. This chapter attempts to contribute to understanding what studying public procurement has to offer for the eco- social nexus perspective. To this end, it proposes to conceptualise green and social procurement along a sectoral and a cross- cutting dimension, and to assess possible synergies and trade- offs between green and social goals in substantive policies, and in organisation and governance.

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