Incorporación de valor social a la contratación pública en España: Situación y perspectivas

The consideration of social value in transactions with public capital should be a guarantee of improvement in our society. The recognition, inclusion and promotion of initiatives of social or environmental character, by public entities, at the time of conducting contests, procurement or grants, could generate an increase in the quality of life of citizens, target that certainly any public administration should pursue. In this article we review comprehensively the situation of the public administrations (local, regional and national) in Spain, and the recent changes in EU public procurement legislation, and after a diagnosis of situation, we develop several recommendations to encourage the incorporation of social value into the public procurement in Spain