Download This PaperGoverning the Assessment and Taking of Risks in Digital Procurement Governance
To be included in A Sanchez-Graells, Digital Technologies and Public Procurement. Gatekeeping and experimentation in digital public governance (OUP, Forthcoming)
26 Pages Posted: 5 Dec 2022 Last revised: 3 Sep 2024
Date Written: November 21, 2022
Abstract
Following the identification of emerging risks in digital procurement governance (see https://ssrn.com/abstract=4254931), this Chapter explores how to embed risk assessments in the initial stages of decision-making processes leading to the adoption of digital solutions for procurement governance, and how to ensure that they are iterated throughout the lifecycle of use of digital technologies. The Chapter critically reviews the model of AI risk regulation based self-regulation and self-assessment that is emerging in EU and UK regulation and considers how to strengthen it, including the possibility of subjecting the process of technological adoption to external checks. The analysis converges with the broader proposal for institutionalised regulatory checks on the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.
Keywords: Public procurement, risk regulation, risk assessment, standards, algorithmic audit, self-regulation, self-assessment, second party assurance, certification, independent authority
JEL Classification: D73, H57, K23, K24, K49, O33
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