Framework agreements have arisen in response to the well documented and high costs of public procurement procedures. The agreements have significant potential to improve procedural efficiency in public procurement, but are complex to operate. Inadequate preparation and implementation can also frustrate their potential both to tackle waste, abuse and corruption and to enhance value for money. In…
This key text for the building team is an authoritative guide and gives a detailed account of the team's roles and responsibilities, with best industry practice required to ensure that building projects meet clients' expectations on time, cost and quality. The second edition of The Aqua Group Guide to Procurement, Tendering and Contract Administration has been edited, enlarged and updated by…
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…
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…