Procurement and artificial intelligence
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Governmental entities must often rely on private sector firms to develop and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can improve public sector performance. As a result, contracts with private firms can provide an important line of defense against improper or ill-executed public sector use of AI. This chapter investigates the connections between procurement and AI in the public sector, highlighting opportunities for using procurement to promote the responsible deployment of AI by governmental entities. To provide a conceptually complete account of the relationship between AI and procurement, the chapter begins by explaining how governments around the world are starting to rely on AI to fulfill procurement functions. The chapter then explains how, for any function, careful attention to procurement contracts can solve some of the transparency concerns surrounding governmental use of AI as well as help respond to concerns about fairness and accountability. In short, procurement can be an important source of AI governance.
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Public procurement has potential as an AI governance mechanism to align public sector AI with public interests.
“Recent work positions public procurement as a way to shape public sector AI in line with public interests, using the state's purchasing power to influence which AI systems are procured and under what conditions.”
From “It’s Just a Wild, Wild West”: Harnessing Public Procurement as an AI Governance Mechanism (2026) · cites this paper as [42]
The procurement process could be used to require suppliers to embed responsible AI aspects in their systems or development processes, for instance through requirements related to transparency, fairness, or community involvement.
“That is, the procurement process could be used to require suppliers to embed responsible AI (rAI) aspects in their systems or development processes, for instance, through setting requirements related to transparency, fairness, or community involvement [9, 42, 55, 122].”
From “It’s Just a Wild, Wild West”: Harnessing Public Procurement as an AI Governance Mechanism (2026) · cites this paper as [42]
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- Authors
- Coglianese, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Coglianese, Cary
- ORCID
- Coglianese, Cary
- Venue
- Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Published
- 2024-06-21
- Pages
- 235-248
- OpenAlex
- W4399562435
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 1
- FWCI
- 38.45
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- Penn Carey Law Legal Scholarship Repository (University of Pennsylvania) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Public Procurement and Policy
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Auction Theory and Applications
- Keywords
- procurement, artificial intelligence, purchasing, procurement automation
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