El artículo brinda nociones introductorias sobre el nuevo marco regulatorio de la Unión Europea sobre contratación pública. El autor sostiene que esta nueva normativa obliga a repensar en cómo articularla a fin de que satisfaga los intereses públicos con respeto a los principios de igualdad, eficacia, transparencia, eficiencia y rendición de cuentas. Además, obliga a repensar la organización administrativa a la luz de los propios fundamentos del derecho público. Todo ello con miras a acercarse al paradigma del derecho a una buena administración como elemento del control y de rendición de cuentas.

This paper gives an account of the regulation of public procurement in Spain with prospective ideas on what the future should be. Attention is paid to the main lines of Spanish regulation, and its aims, to end with some propositional conclusions on the regulatory rationale.

The article provides introductory notions about the new regulatory framework of the European Union on public procurement. The author argues that this new legislation forces us to rethink how articulate it to satisfies the public interest with respect to the principles of equality, efficiency, transparency, efficiency and accountability. It also forces us to rethink the administrative organization in the light of the own principles of public law. All that with the objective to approach us to the paradigm of the right to good administration as an element of control and accountability.

Este trabajo da cuenta de la regulación de la contratación pública en España con ideas de prospectiva sobre cuál debe ser el futuro. Se presta atención a las principales líneas de la regulación española, y sus fines, para finalizar con unas conclusiones propositivas sobre la fundamentación regulatoria.

The article provides introductory notions about the new regulatory framework of the European Union on public procurement. The author argues that this new legislation forces us to rethink how articulate it to satisfies the public interest with respect to the principles of equality, efficiency, transparency, efficiency and accountability. It also forces us to rethink the administrative organization in the light of the own principles of public law. All that with the objective to approach us to the paradigm of the right to good administration as an element of control and accountability.

This paper gives an account of the regulation of public procurement in Spain with prospective ideas on what the future should be. Attention is paid to the main lines of Spanish regulation, and its aims, to end with some propositional conclusions on the regulatory rationale.