This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and the guidance of Edwin Lau, Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division in GOV. The report was co‑ordinated by Erika Bozzay, Senior Policy Adviser in the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division. Costanza Caputi, Policy Analyst in the same division drafted Chapter 3. Laura Kuoraite, at the time Policy Analyst on secondment from the Public Procurement Office in Lithuania, drafted Chapter 1 and 4. Lisa Vanden Eynden, consultant in the same division, also provided valuable contributions to the report drafting. The report benefited from valuable insights and comments from Paulo Magina, Deputy Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division. Ildikó Czeglédi, expert consultant working for the OECD, also contributed to the report with economic methodological evaluation and comparison of the analysed LCC tools, drafting of the economic, methodological parts of the report, as well as with contribution to the recommendations. This report was prepared for publication by Thibaut Gigou who also supported communications efforts.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the European Commission for their support to this project, particularly Mr. Daniele Dotto, Deputy Director and Head of Unit, Governance and Public Administration and Alessandra Budello, policy officer at DG Reform, European Commission.
The OECD and the European Commission are particularly thankful to the Hungarian Government for their commitment to this work and wish to express their gratitude to all those who made this report possible, especially the representatives of the Prime Minister’s Office and the Public Procurement Authority of Hungary. Throughout the process, they have shown great dedication and commitment, including mobilising all relevant stakeholders. During the fact-finding missions, the OECD conducted in-depth interviews with various stakeholders in Hungary. These interviews were instrumental in further improving the OECD’s understanding of the Hungarian context and helping to recommend courses of action that reflect the national priorities. The authors would also like to thank all contracting authorities and other stakeholders who replied to the survey on the use of LCC by contracting authorities in Hungary conducted by the OECD.
Furthermore, the OECD expresses its gratitude to all those organisations who were interviewed during the stocktaking exercise for providing invaluable insights during the fact-finding interviews and the drafting process:
Consip (Italy), Gian Luigi Albano and Lidia Capparelli
Environment Protection Agency (Denmark), Jeppe Nørtoft and Marie Louise Rementorp
ECPAR (Canada), Aure Adell
European Commission, DG ENV, Enrico De Giorgis
European Commission, DG GROW, Ivo Locatelli, Anna Lupi and Samira Bousetta
German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Kristin Stechemesser
Government of Flanders, Els Verwimp
Hansel (Finland), Mika Hanninen and KEINO – Competence Center for Sustainable and Innovative Procurement, Antti Savola
IFZ (Interdisciplinary Research Center for Technology, Work and Culture, Austria), Angelika Tisch
NaBe Platform (Austria), Gerhard Weiner
Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ), Christine Kihl, Helene Hoggen, Dominique Sellier, Oud Olaf, Martin Standley
ÖBB - Austrian Federal Railways, Sven Schirmer
PIANOo (Netherlands), Meinke Schouten
Rijkswaterstaad (Netherlands), Jeroen Van Alphen
SKAO - Foundation for Climate Friendly Procurement and Business (Netherlands), Maud Vastbinder and George Thurley
Swedish National Agency for Public Procurement, Heini-Marja Suvilehto
Delegates from the Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement were invited to review the document.