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Public Procurement Challenges in the Portuguese Gendarmerie Force: The Division into Lots Regime

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This article focuses on the study of the adjudication into lots regime, located in article 46º-A of the current version of the Portuguese Public Contracts’ Code. The purpose is to analyze the main challenges of the application of the regime itself as well as its connection with the figure of the contract manager and with the shared services in the public administration, within the scope of public procurement at a Portuguese gendarmerie, named Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR). It followed a deductive methodology, through bibliographic research, analysis of institutional documents, and several pre-contractual procedures. It is also based upon a mixed investigation strategy, through a survey and interviews. The densification of the gathered arguments allows establishing that in regard to the regime itself, there are multiple challenges. In addition to the intrinsic peculiarities of the contractual object types in question, this study underlines the questions associated with the economic impacts and the influence of the territorial dispersion of the GNR in the adoption of the adjudication into lots regime. It is also concluded that it is relevant to create a structure dedicated to contract management if it constitutes an added value for the entity. Within the scope of the shared services, the regime presents itself as a facilitating tool in several procedures, having an aggregating or disaggregating role, depending on the adopted division. The figure under study, despite having some limitations and difficulties inherent to its complexity, will result in relevant contributions in all analyzed aspects.

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    Paulo Aires & Edgar Bogas

  2. Centro de Investigação Desenvolvimento e Inovação da Academia Militar, Academia Militar, Instituto Universitário Militar, Rua Gomes Freire, 1669-203, Lisboa, Portugal

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Aires, P., Malheiro, L., Bogas, E. (2023). Public Procurement Challenges in the Portuguese Gendarmerie Force: The Division into Lots Regime. In: Rocha, Á., Fajardo-Toro, C.H., Riola, J.M. (eds) Developments and Advances in Defense and Security. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 328. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7689-6_21

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