Public Procurement and Contract Law: Exploring Intersections, Defining Boundaries

This open access anthology explores intersections and boundaries between public procurement and contract law, examining how these legal regimes diverge, influence, and occasionally overlap during the performance stage of public contracts. While public procurement processes are largely harmonised across Europe through the EU Public Procurement Directives, the performance phase is only partially regulated.A sizeable part of public contract implementation remains subject to national laws, governed through a combination of administrative and contract law.This gives rise to a set of foundational questions: Does public procurement law fully occupy the legal space of public contract performance?In which instances-if any-does contract law retain relevance?Are classical contract law concepts transformed or distorted when applied to public contracts, and how does this affect mechanisms such as arbitration?To what extent do the answers to these questions vary depending on the regulatory model ado