This unique guide contains contributions from leading experts around the world who explain best practices in public procurement in their jurisdictions. In addition to 19 jurisdictional chapters by leading professionals, featured chapters include contributions on United Nations best practice, the European directives, how countries are fighting corruption in the field and how public-private partn…
In this book the author outlines those aspects of the public procurement regulations that are directly relevant to a bidder taking part in a procurement for the supply of public services and draws on his experience of advising on procurement in central government, local government and the NHS to reveal what actually happens in practice.
Max Rolfstam examines the increasing emphasis on public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation and the theoretical implications of this policy development. While 'regular' public procurement may be regarded as the outcome of anonymous market processes, public procurement of innovation must be understood as a special case of innovation, where social processes - and consequently the insti…
This goal of this book is to help procurement professionals find information in the areas of strategic sourcing, supplier management and purchasing. Specific research resources are listed in sections that include: supplier identification, supplier diligence/monitoring, category market intelligence, best practices, operations benchmarking, pricing, professional associations, websites/networks, m…
More then just a textbook, A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation will guide economists' research on regulation for years to come. It makes a difficult and large literature of the new regulatory economics accessible to the average graduate student, while offering insights into the theoretical ideas and stratagems not available elsewhere. Based on their path breaking work in the ap…
A concisely written guide to the law and management of construction contracts in Singapore. More suited to the construction professional who needs to manage construction contracts and who does not have a legal background. This book is an indispensible title for architects, quantity surveyors, engineers and contractors. This book deals from the whole spectrum of crucial issues in construct…
Common Sense Purchasing is a no holds barred practical guide to purchasing and negotiations success. If you don't like consultants, buzzwords and theory this book is for you. Straight forward and to the point you will not be able to put it down until you have finished the purchasing journey. This book will guide you through the transformation of purchasing into a supply management or supply cha…
Learning the knowledge needed to become a better negotiator of Procurement and Purchasing contracts.
this book present effective strategies for developing countries to leverage their public sector demand for manufactured import to promote industrialization, trade, and technology transfer. Technology transfer its absorption is considered one of the most crucial and complicated challenges for developing countries, which are characterized by insufficient infrastructure, low technological intensit…
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 disqualificatio…