This is the fifth volume in the European Procurement Law Series with an analysis of one of the most important elements of EU public procurement law: Award of the public contract. The subject of this book has for obvious reasons already received scholarly attention in the many books and articles on EU public procurement law. However, the existing literature has seldom been based on a comparative approach covering a broad range of Member States of the European Union with diversified national approaches to EU public procurement law. The present publication is original in this sense and consequently provides the reader with an insight that cannot be found elsewhere. This publication includes specific chapters on the state of law and developments in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania and Denmark.