This review was prepared under the direction and oversight of Marcos Bonturi, OECD Director for Public Governance, and János Bertók, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. The review was authored by a team of analysts in the Public Procurement Unit, headed by Paulo Magina: Lena Diesing (also coordinator of this review), Matthieu Cahen, Andy Cochrane, Agnieszka Szczypinska and Lara Gruben. Jennifer Moreau also contributed to set up this review.
The study was shared widely across the OECD, with the Public Governance Directorate, the Economics Department and the Statistics Directorate. Valuable comments and suggestions were received from numerous colleagues notably from Carrie Exton, Fleur D’Souza, Kenza Khachani and Minjoo Son.
Editorial assistance was provided by Marissa Colón-Margolies and Andrea Uhrhammer. This review was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik and Thibaut Gigou. Pauline Alexandrov, Nadjad Bacar, Edwina Collins, Rania Haidar, Laura Roberts and Alpha Zambou provided administrative assistance.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the German administration for the visionary leadership and cooperation in preparing this report. The OECD wishes to thank counterparts at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, notably Philipp Steinberg, Raphael L’Hoest, Thomas Solbach, Andreas Rueger and Sandra Voos; at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Ernst Bürger, Sören Bergner and Hagen Nollau; and at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Martin Kelleners, Thomas Schmitt and Ulf Rosner. Additionally, numerous experts throughout the German administration, civil society, academia and private sector openly shared insights into the German public procurement system. The authors would like to express their gratitude to this fruitful cooperation.
This review is part of a series of peer reviews on public procurement in OECD, G20 and non-member economies. It benefited from input from the Bureau members and senior public procurement officials who participated in the OECD Meeting of the Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement held in Paris on 29-31 October 2018, chaired by Dag Stromsnes, Chief Procurement Officer, Agency for Public Management and e‑Government (Difi) in Norway.
The review was approved by the OECD Working Party of the Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement (LPP) on 30 November 2018 and declassified by the Public Governance Committee on 2 April 2019.