Public Procurement

Research on public procurement is a relatively young but growing field within legal scholarship that has gained increasing importance as public procurement has become more politicised and used as a policy instrument to achieve goals such as environmental and labour objectives, while also undergoing significant changes through adaptation to EU law.

The field of procurement is inherently interdisciplinary and is studied at Swedish universities across several disciplines, including law, economics, political science, and sociology. Legal research in this area spans both public and private law, since procurement procedures are governed by a public law framework based on EU law but result in private law contracts.

Within the subject of Law at Mid Sweden University, research in this area focuses on the legal nature of the procurement contract and the contractual autonomy of the parties, with particular interest in the tension between the public law framework of procurement law and the private law principles of contract law.