Public administration accountability on the social pillar of sustainable procurement: a documentary analysis
Autor
Fernández Pérez, Rosa
Luque Vílchez, Mercedes
Editor
Taylor & FrancisFecha
2022Materia
Social accountingPublic procurement/purchasing
SDGs
Procurement records
Indicators
Content analysis
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This research analyses public administration accountability practices relating to the social pillar of sustainable public procurement. To that end, we carry out a content analysis of the social criteria (and the indicators applied to report on compliance therewith) incorporated into the procurement files produced by a Spanish regional government between 2017 and 2019, containing over 9,300 pages of contractual content. The results show a significant disconnect between current accountability practices and the promotion of sustainability. Worth noting in this sense is the confusion between criteria and indicators, the use of mere legal compliance unrelated to sustainable public procurement as “indicators”, and the fact that the few genuine sustainable public procurement indicators identified do not provide relevant information to determine compliance with the criteria. In this scenario, accounting misses an opportunity to play a mediating role in the implementation of sustainable practices such as those prescribed by the SDGs.
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