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Still great potential for more public tenders
Last year, the state, regions and municipalities put out tenders for 25.7 percent of the contracts for which it is possible to create competition. In recent years, that number has increased by approximately 1 percent per year, but the potential to create further competition for public procurement is still huge.
In 2015, the public sector purchased goods and services from private companies worth nearly DKK 300 billion. Of the contracts it was possible to tender, the state, municipalities and regions did so in 25.7 percent of cases. This is shown by the analysis "Status of public competition" conducted by the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority.
In recent years, the share of public contracts exposed to competition has increased by almost 1 percent per year on average, and from 2014 to 2015 the increase was 1.1 percent, with the state exposing 30.5 percent of its contracts suitable for tendering to competition, the regions 19.9 percent and the municipalities 26.5 percent. Not revealed by the figures are a relatively large increase in the state's exposure to competition relative to 2014, a slight increase for the municipalities and a small decline for the regions. The difference between the municipalities and the regions exposing the most and least to competition has also grown.
Read the status of public competition in 2016