Grith Skovgaard Ølykke receives grant from 'Konkurrensverket'

Grith Skovgaard Ølykke and 'Konkurrensverket', The Swedish Competition Authority, has recently agreed on terms for a new research project to be done by the ending of 2016. Grith has been granted SEK 770.000 for the project which will be done in cooperation with Swedish economist Johan Nyström of the VTI, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. Title and abstract of the project are as follows:

Title: Abnormally low tenders: pricing strategies and efficient assessment by contracting authorities and courts/the complaints board

Abstract:
Abnormally low tenders is a highly topical issue at the practical level in public procurement: there is a fine line between fierce price competition and low pricing which is not desirable, and this line has not been clearly drawn. This project will examine where the line is drawn by Swedish courts/the Danish complaints board for public procurement, and make an economic assessment which should result in recommendations on how categories of low prices should be handled, taking into account the recent amendment of the provision on abnormally low tenders in new the public procurement directives from 2014.