The conference will accept scientific papers, technical reports and cases. Suggested will include the following topics, among others:

• Dealing with COVID-19: Public procurement strategies
• Public procurement: global vs national views
• Public procurement reforms
• Public procurement globalization in the current protectionist environment
• Public procurement governance and the rule of law
• New technologies that are transforming procurement such as a mega data, block chains, AI, e-procurement
• Government contracting for public service, infrastructure, innovation
• Public procurement as a social/economic tool including procurement for small business
• Public procurement and transparency/ accountability
• Economics of public procurement
• Performance-based procurement especially for more innovative procurement such as public service and PPPs
• Theory and evidence of the design and operation of platform for public resource transaction
• Centralized vs decentralized and new forms of organization of procurement function in new era of technology
• Procurement professionalization and the emerging professional organization
• The global trend of public procurement as a new field of study