Compulsory competitive tendering in Northern Ireland local government: The end of round one

Competitive Tendering In Local Government: A Review Of Theory And Evidence

“…Five of the nine empirical studies use a simple bivariate method to evaluate competitive tendering (Chaundy and Uttley 1993;Cope 1995;Hartley and Huby 1985;Knox and Young 1995;Walsh and Davis 1993). This approach assumes that any observed changes in expenditure or efficiency are solely (or largely) attributable to the introduction of competition.…”

Local government in Northern Ireland: Emerging from the Bearpit of sectarianism?

“…Further, in all cases the DSO bid was the lowest received. Estimates of savings vary from 2-5 per cent (Chief Executives' Forum, 1996) to 25 per cent (Knox and Young, 1995) for the first round of contract services tendered. These short-term savings are of course influenced by significant start-up costs associated with CCT, such as contract specification and client/contractor organisational restructuring with concomitant staffing implications.…”

The changing regulation of public leisure provision

“…These mechanisms, and their impact on service delivery, have been the subject of debate in a number of countries, including Britain (Ravenscroft and Tolley, 1996), Northern Ireland (Knox and Young, 1995), the USA (Johnson, 1989), Canada (Glover and Burton, 1998) and many member states of the European Union (Johnson, 1989;Bramham, et al, 1993;and Muller, 1997). While recognizing the link between differing structures of provision and their respective impact on service delivery, it is clear that equal attention needs to be paid to assessing the relative effectiveness, ef ciency and economy of different structures of service provision.…”