Keywords
Políticas sociales y de bienestar, contratación pública, discapacidad, políticas públicas, empleo., The new regulations on public procurement, should represent the transition towards the so-called «strategic public procurement». This part of the contractual activity of the public sector - whose economic relevance is very importante, approximately 18% GDP - is a powerful mechanism of economic and social intervention, which has to respond to new challenges and objectives traced by the Europe 2020 Strategy. This paper will try to show how the new law can influence access to employment for people with disabilities, the positive effects and the problems that it can have.