School of Law CCLFR research seminar with Dr. Penelope Giosa (Reading University)Info Location Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionEvent time: 12:00-13:00 Title: From Vulnerability to Resilience: Designing an Anti-Collusion Core for EU Public Procurement Abstract Public procurement is a critical economic cornerstone for the EU, yet it is consistently undermined by bid rigging. Bid rigging is a sophisticated form of collusion among competing firms, which remains a costly and widespread threat to the integrity of the European Union's public procurement system, costing taxpayers billions of euros annually. Indicatively, bid-rigging can inflate contract prices by 20% to 60% or more. This research, drawn from my monograph "Competition Law and Collusion in Public Procurement" (Routledge 2025) , argues that the current EU procurement framework, despite significant legislative reforms, is not sufficiently equipped to prevent this anti-competitive behaviour. The presentation will detail innovative, policy-oriented recommendations to actively design anti-collusion measures into the core of the framework. Ultimately, this work calls for a coordinated approach between procurement and competition regulators to ensure the EU system evolves to actively detect and deter collusion, thereby securing better value for public funds.
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Contacta.miglionico@reading.ac.uk More InformationBio Penelope Giosa is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading and a Fellow at the George Washington Competition & Innovation Lab. She is an active member of the legal community, serving as the Convenor of the SLS (Society of Legal Scholars) Comparative Law Section and as Secretary of the British Association of Comparative Law (BACL). Dr. Giosa holds qualifications as a non-practising lawyer in both Greece and Cyprus. She has advanced her research through visiting fellowships at several renowned institutions, including the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA, 2023), the University of Oxford’s Institute of European and Comparative Law (2022), and Georgetown Law School (Washington D.C., 2019). Her time at Georgetown was supported by the prestigious American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law International Scholar in Residence Program. Dr. Giosa’s research focuses on the intersection of Public Procurement, Competition Law, and Economic Crime. She also has a keen interest in State Aid and the role of law in promoting sustainable development and mitigating climate change. | |||||||||||||||
