International Handbook of Public Procurement

by Thai; Khi V.

• ISBN13: 9781420054576
• ISBN10: 1420054570
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A Complete Resource in Public Procurement from a Global Perspective Since the 1990s, government at all levels has been under increasing pressure to do more with less. However, despite the U.S. government spending about 15 to 20 percent of its GDP on contracts for goods and services, there is a paucity of reference books for public procurement officials and very few textbooks for courses on the subject.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Editor	p. xvii
Contributors	p. xix
International Public Procurement: Concepts and Practices	p. 1
Public Procurement: A Conceptual Framework
Framework for Assessing the Acquisition Function at Federal Agencies	p. 27
Assessing Federal Procurement Reform: Has the Procurement Pendulum Stopped Swinging?	p. 67
Analytical Framework for the Management and Reform of Public Procurement	p. 87
EU Directives as Anticorruption Measures: Excluding Corruption-Convicted Tenderers from Public Procurement Contracts	p. 105
Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: A Tool for Effective Governance of the Public Sector and Poverty Reduction	p. 131
Simulation Approach to In-House versus Contracted-Out Cost Comparisons	p. 157
Public Procurement Organization: A Comparison of Purchasing's Organizational Roles and Responsibilities in the Public and Private Sectors	p. 175
Service Sourcing	p. 187
How Many Vendors Does It Take to Screw Down a Price? A Primer on Competition in Procurement	p. 211
Procurement Systems
Public Procurement in the United Nations System	p. 233
EC Regime on Public Procurement	p. 251
U.S. Federal Government Procurement: Organizational Structure, Process, and Current Issues	p. 291
Public Procurement in Germany	p. 307
China's Government Procurement Policy and Institutional Framework: History, Structure, and Operation	p. 323
Overview of the Government Procurement System in South Africa	p. 357
Public Procurement in Cambodia	p. 375
Procurement Systems in Uganda	p. 393
Public Procurement in Post-Transitional Context: The Case of Estonia	p. 409
Procurement Process in the Public Sector: An International Perspective	p. 427
E-Procurement
Key Issues in E-Procurement: Procurement Implementation and Operation in the Public Sector	p. 445
Factors Influencing E-Procurement Usage	p. 459
Facilitators of Public E-Procurement: Lessons Learned from the U.K., U.S., and Australian Initiatives	p. 473
Evaluation of Public E-Procurement Services Accessibility: A Multicriteria Approach	p. 491
World Bank E-Procurement for the Selection of Consultants: Challenges and Lessons Learned	p. 511
E-Procurement Management in State Governments: Diffusion of E-Procurement Practices and Its Determinants	p. 527
Public Procurement Methods and Practices
Best Practices: Using Spend Analysis to Help Agencies Take a More strategic Approach to Procurement	p. 543
Contract Negotiations	p. 563
Controlling Service Process Performance with Statistical Process Control	p. 579
Fixed Asset Disposal: Methods and Strategies for Disposing of Personal Property in the Public Sector	p. 591
Enhancing Use of Past Performance as a Source Selection Criterion	p. 613
Ban-on-Negotiations in Tender Procedures: Undermining the Best Value for Money	p. 631
Bid Protests: Theory and Practice	p. 659
Decision Technological Foundations of Public Procurement Processes	p. 673
Pricing Strategies and Cost Analysis in Public Procurement	p. 689
Public-Private Partnerships	p. 703
Market's Response to Contract Award Announcements: Government versus Corporate Contracts	p. 725
Economic Context of Public Procurement	p. 737
Offset Policy Design in International Procurement	p. 749
Regression Approach for Estimating Procurement Cost	p. 763
Procurement Design: Lessons from Economic Theory and Illustrations from the Dutch Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Projects	p. 779
Index	p. 793
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