Title: The legal framework and policies for sustainable administrative contracts in Egypt: reality and challenges

Authors: Karem Sayed Aboelazm

Addresses: College of Law, Umm Al Quwain University (UAQU), United Arab Emirates

Abstract: This paper provided an overview of the concept of public procurement and sustainable development and aimed to extract a definition of sustainable public procurement. The paper also focused on reaching the pillars of sustainable procurement in general and extracting these pillars from the Egyptian system to identify the advantages of implementing sustainable public procurement. Several results were reached, on top of which are the multiple advantages of sustainable public procurement that may contribute to achieving sustainable development goals. It was also concluded that many challenges are facing the implementation of this system in Egypt, the most important of which is the legal framework, the bureaucracy and the necessary funding.

Keywords: public procurement; sustainable development; sustainable public procurement; Egypt.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPLAP.2023.130011

International Journal of Public Law and Policy, 2023 Vol.9 No.2, pp.111 - 129

Received: 22 Feb 2022
Accepted: 01 Mar 2022
Published online: 04 Apr 2023 *

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