In any country in the world, public procurement is the area in which governments not only carry out a significant percentage of public spending, but also serves to promote and develop public policies in such a way that it becomes a launching pad for a country’s social and economic objectives.Throughout the four generations of procurement directives, the European Union has focused on this goal: to turn public procurement into one of the integrating mechanisms of the internal market and, to this end, the procedures and rules governing this procurement system must respect the freedoms of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU): the free movement of goods, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services, but also the principles derived from these, i.e. equal treatment, non-discrimination, mutual recognition, proportionality and transparency.The European Union’...