Public Procurement The Continuing Revolution

Author : Sue Arrowsmith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2002-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041198903

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Public Procurement:The Continuing Revolution by Sue Arrowsmith Pdf

From modest beginnings in the early 1990's, a reform movement in the regulation of public procurement has mushroomed into a global imperative. Two fundamental values of international free trade policy value for money and the deterrence of corruption have brought intense scrutiny to bear on public procurement practices in nearly every country. Now international standards (notably those of the WTO and the EU) must be met if a trading nation is to take its place in the global markets. This collection of essays offers fifteen distinct views on the current status and trends in public procurement and its various aspects. From general discussion of setup, overcoming obstacles, ensuring transparency, and compliance with international rules to specific issues raised in economies as diverse as Kosovo, China, and the United States, Public Procurement: The Continuing Revolution provides a great wealth of insight and information. Although the emphasis throughout is on legal issues, the contributors include not only lawyers but also economists and specialists in purchasing practice. In addition, this is the first book to note the relatively recent trend, in developed countries, toward a less prescriptive, more flexible approach to regulation in which a degree of transparency is sacrificed. The question of how this trend will affect international procurement regimes is perhaps the most vital and interesting aspect of current theory and practice in the field. Most of these essays were originally presented as papers at an international conference hosted by the Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Nottingham in September 2001.

Author : Sue Arrowsmith,Keith Hartley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Competition
ISBN : 1840640960

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Author : Sue Arrowsmith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041196625

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Public Procurement:Global Revolution by Sue Arrowsmith Pdf

Regulation, . the challenge of widening participation in global & regional agreements & of making these agreements work, . regulating defence procurement, & . the use of procurement to promote social & environmental policies. Public Procurement: Global Revolution brings together the leading experts from academia, practice, & international institutions to describe the major global developments that have occurred in public procurement regulation & to examine some key current policy issues. The dynamic nature of the topic & the quality of coverage make this a useful, interesting resource for academics in the fields of international law & economics as well as practitioners & officials involved in international trade.

Author : Sue Arrowsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:634789095

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Public procurement. 2 (2002) by Sue Arrowsmith Pdf

Author : Khi V. Thai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351562386

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International Handbook of Public Procurement by Khi V. Thai Pdf

Since the 1990s, government at all levels is 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. Filling this void, the International Handbook of Public Procurement provides the knowledge necessary to understand how procurement works and how to improve the cost-effectiveness of procurement systems. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book focuses on the managerial, economic, political, and legal aspects of this topic. It begins with a conceptual framework and highlights various reforms occurring in certain countries. By examining these improvements, readers are able to apply this knowledge to their own strategies. The next section presents selected cases that illustrate the public procurement process, examining systems in various nations including Germany, China, South Africa, Cambodia, Uganda, and Estonia. The book also discusses the rise of electronic procurement systems (E-procurement) and reviews the benefits of these efficient systems. Other topics presented in this comprehensive volume include practical discussions on contract negotiations, bidding, price strategies and cost analysis, and an insightful chapter on the market’s response to contract award announcements. A virtual encyclopedia from numerous international experts, this book was assembled by Khi V. Thai, Professor at Florida Atlantic University and Editor of the Journal of Public Procurement. Dr. Thai has provided technical assistance in the area of public procurement to governments across the world. Empowering those on all sides of the issue, this volume dispenses advice valuable to government officials and contractors, as well as providing a comprehensive text for public administration students.

Author : Mark A. Abramson,Roland S. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742532739

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The Procurement Revolution by Mark A. Abramson,Roland S. Harris Pdf

The ninth book in the IBM Endowment Series on the Business of Government, The Procurement Revolution continues the tradition of timely and vital information dissemination, which the series has come to stand for. Focusing on the profound and revolutionary changes the government has had and will have to make in its approach to procuring goods and services, this book strives to capture the creativity and energy that can and should be brought to government procurement.

Author : Maria Anna Corvaglia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782259046

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Public Procurement and Labour Rights by Maria Anna Corvaglia Pdf

This book investigates patterns of fragmentation and coherence in the international regulatory architecture of public procurement. In the context of the major international instruments of procurement regulation, the book studies the achievement of social and labour policies, the most controversial and problematic instrumental uses of public procurement practices. This work offers an innovative comparative approach, discussing the ways in which the different international instruments-namely the EU Procurement Directives, the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, the UNCITRAL Model Law and the World Bank's Procurement Framework-are able to implement labour and social purposes and, at the same time, ensure a regulatory balance with the principles of efficiency and non-discrimination. Scholarly, rigorous and timely, this will be important reading for international trade lawyers and procurement practitioners.

Author : Peter-Armin Trepte
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849290692

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Trade Effects of Rules on Procurement for Commonwealth ACP Members by Peter-Armin Trepte Pdf

This Economic Paper assesses the potential trade effects of rules on procurement policies in Commonwealth ACP countries. It provides a practical guide for policy-makers and negotiators to determine the impact of government procurement rules and policies taken at the national level or negotiated in trade agreements.

Author : Christine Léon de Mariz,Claude Ménard,Bernard Abeillé
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191024306

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Public Procurement Reforms in Africa by Christine Léon de Mariz,Claude Ménard,Bernard Abeillé Pdf

Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades. Identifying the forces that push towards reform and the conditions that determine the success or failure of reforms, building organizational arrangements needed to make modifications to the rules of the game sustainable, and understanding the limits to the transfer of reforms and to the help that international organizations and foreign institutions can provide to support change, raise intellectually difficult and politically highly sensitive issues. This book attempts to address these issues from an economic perspective. Combining knowledge and field experience, it develops an analysis of institutional changes and organizational transformations based on the experience of the public procurement reforms carried out in sub-Saharan Africa. This highlights the economic significance of procurement and the formidable obstacles that institutional changes face. Using an original dataset, it explores the gap between the expectations and what has been achieved. It develops a framework that intends to capture the complex interaction between the different components of reform and aims to provide useful insights for researchers and policy makers.

Author : S.N. Nyeck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137521378

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Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa by S.N. Nyeck Pdf

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in which government purchases works, goods, and services from the private sector is one of the most sweeping policy reform undertaken in Africa in the past decade. Despite the transnational scope of policy change, very little is known about the mechanisms of public procurement governance at the subnational level. The argument in this volume is that policy reforms that mitigate contractual hazards along the three-dimensional “law-politics-business matrix” are more likely to bring about meaningful institutional transformation and broader social accountability. Key to substantive transformation of public procurement is the revitalization and professionalization of the public sector to meet the opportunities and challenges of development by contract.

Author : Sope Williams-Elegbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782250142

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Fighting Corruption in Public Procurement by Sope Williams-Elegbe Pdf

Anti-corruption measures have firmly taken centre stage in the development agenda of international organisations as well as in developed and developing countries. One area in which corruption manifests itself is in public procurement and, as a result, States have adopted various measures to prevent and curb corruption in public procurement. One such mechanism for dealing with procurement corruption is to debar or disqualify corrupt suppliers from bidding for or otherwise obtaining government contracts. This book examines the issues and challenges raised by the debarment or disqualification of corrupt suppliers from public contracts. Implementing a disqualification mechanism in public procurement raises serious practical and conceptual difficulties, which are not always considered by legislative provisions on disqualification. Some of the problems that may arise from the use of disqualifications include determining whether a conviction for corruption ought to be a pre-requisite to disqualification, bearing in mind that corruption thrives in secret, resulting in a dearth of convictions. Another issue is determining how to balance the tension between granting adequate procedural safeguards to a supplier in disqualification proceedings and not delaying the procurement process. A further issue is determining the scope of the disqualification in the sense of determining whether it applies to firms, natural persons, subcontractors, subsidiaries or other persons related to the corrupt firm and whether disqualification will lead to the termination of existing contracts. The book compares and contrasts the legal, practical and institutional approaches to the implementation of the disqualification mechanism in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Republic of South Africa and the World Bank.

Author : Anne Schmidt
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783845279022

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Public Procurement Law and Reform in Developing Countries: International Best Practices and Lessons Learned by Anne Schmidt Pdf

Das Buch bietet einen breiten Überblick über best practices und lessons learned im öffentlichen Auftragsvergaberecht und deren Reform in Entwicklungsländern. Das Werk richtet sich vor allem an Studenten, Wissenschaftler und Experten, die sich über das öffentliche Auftragswesen und insbesondere Recht und Reform auf diesem Gebiet informieren möchten. Aber auch Praktiker, die für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung des Rechts verantwortlich sind und alle an Reformprozessen des öffentlichen Auftragsvergaberechts Beteiligten können von der Lektüre profitieren. Neben einer umfassenden Analyse der wichtigsten internationalen und ausgewählter nationaler Auftragsvergaberechtsinstrumenten - darunter das GPA, das UNCITRAL Modellgesetz und das Südafrikanische System - liefert die Fallstudie Namibia nützliche Einblicke in rechtliche aber auch praktische Probleme bei der Einführung und Durchsetzung des öffentlichen Auftragsvergaberechts in Entwicklungsländern.

Author : Albert Sánchez Graells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509900282

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Public Procurement and the EU Competition Rules by Albert Sánchez Graells Pdf

Public procurement and competition law are both important fields of EU law and policy, intimately intertwined in the creation of the internal market. Hitherto their close connection has been noted, but not closely examined. This work is the most comprehensive attempt to date to explain the many ways in which these fields, often considered independent of one another, interact and overlap in the creation of the internal market. This process of convergence between competition and public procurement law is particularly apparent in the 2014 Directives on public procurement, which consolidate the principle of competition in terms very close to those advanced by the author in the first edition. This second edition builds upon this approach and continues to ask how competition law principles inform and condition public procurement rules, and whether the latter (in their revised form) are adequate to ensure that competition is not distorted. The second edition also deepens the analysis of the market behaviour of the public buyer from a competition perspective. Proceeding through a careful assessment of the general rules of competition and public procurement, the book constantly tests the efficacy of these rules against a standard of the proper functioning of undistorted competition in the market for public procurement. It also traces the increasing relevance of competition considerations in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and sets out criteria and recommendations to continue influencing the development of EU Economic Law.

Author : Louise Knight,Christine Harland,Jan Telgen,Khi V. Thai,Guy Callender,Katy McKen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136713804

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Public Procurement by Louise Knight,Christine Harland,Jan Telgen,Khi V. Thai,Guy Callender,Katy McKen Pdf

In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a great interest among managers and academics to learn from other countries’ and other sectors’ change initiatives and how they dealt with the challenges they encountered. This text provides such learning opportunities, presenting case studies of public procurement, covering diverse nations, sectors and issues. The cases are combined with editorial commentary and contextualizing chapters to assist the student reader in understanding this complex topic. The text combines descriptions of cases of public procurement with cross case analysis to draw out the key dimensions to enable further examination of the central themes. Each case study concludes with three questions to aid its use as a teaching and training text. Edited by a team of internationally recognised experts in the field this innovative text illustrates the strategies and innovations within public procurement on a global scale and highlights common problems that all countries encounter. Public Procurement is vital reading for anyone with an interest in this topical area.

Author : Sue Arrowsmith,Geo Quinot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107028326

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Public Procurement Regulation in Africa by Sue Arrowsmith,Geo Quinot Pdf

This book examines the regulatory rules on public procurement in selected African countries and provides a comparative analysis of key regulatory issues.