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On 13 April 2017, prof. dr. Elisabetta Manunza gave a presentation at the conference “Financieren in netwerken” (“Financing in networks”), which delved into the new government-initiated trend of ‘societal procurement’ [‘Maatschappelijk aanbesteden’].

This type of procurement means that the government attempts to involve citizens or citizen’s collectives in the set up and/or execution of a public procurement procedure. Nevertheless, this can cause friction with public procurement law, because citizens can classify as ‘persons or legal persons’ who might fall under the notion of an ‘economic operator’. For this reason, Wouter Lohmann, Gerrieke Bouwman, and Elisabetta Manunza developed a matrix in 2015 that provides fourteen different possibilities to give citizens or citizen’s collectives a role in public procurement without being in contrast with the basic principles of the EU Treaties and the Public Procurement Regulation.

The conference was organised by Leiden ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and the province of Zuid-Holland and was attended by three hundred municipalities and many other public authorities.