Tools to do the Strategic Public Procurement: the life cycle of the products and services and their life cycle cost

Abstract

In the last reform in the field of public procurement there has been an evolution in the approach to its strategic use. Within the new schemes that European and Spanish legislation intends to impose, two existing instruments are incorporated in the legal system, but which take on a new role: the life cycle and the cost of the life cycle of the products or services. Traditionally considered as two elements of the incorporation of environmental clauses in the framework of public procurement, its virtuality goes beyond its environmental dimension, constituting two relevant tools for the development of strategic public procurement.