The variety of procurement practice: evidence from public procurement

Carpineti, Laura; Piga, Gustavo; Zanza, Matteo

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511492556.003

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“…In fact, the Swedish Public Procurement Act (2007:1091) which builds on EU directive (2004/18/EC) on public contracts is based on the principle of most economically advantageous tendering (MEAT), which allows a principal to base the evaluation of bids on other criteria than price. In an overview of European and US public procurement practices, Carpinetti, Piga and Zanza (2006) find that the higher is the complexity of the service supplied the more important are nonprice attributes in contract awarding criteria.…”

Section: Competition For Contractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Bennmarker

Grönqvist

Öckert

2013

Journal of Public Economics

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Section: Competition For Contractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Bennmarker

Grönqvist

Öckert

2013

Journal of Public Economics

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“…Table 1 shows that ITB 02/2013 established eight categories of requirements and a total of 25 documents to be presented by bidders. Despite requiring such a number of documents depending on the discretion of the public authority in charge of the bidding terms, it should be stated that other countries generally require the bidder to satisfy three to five categories [15]. Thus, it can be interpreted that the Brazilian legislation or its implementation by public authorities may be demanding too many qualification documents for interested companies, which may somehow restrict competitiveness.…”

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Competitive Aspects in the Metropolitan Region of Recife Bidding Terms for the Delegation of Its Urban Bus System

Rolim¹,

Santos²,

Meira³

2014

JTTE

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This paper discusses aspects related to competitiveness in the ITB (invitation to bid) of the public tender for the concession of the urban bus public transport services in the RMR (Metropolitan Region of Recife) in the Brazilian northeastern region. The bid was made public through a consortium formed by the two major cities of the RMR-Recife and Olinda, and the government of the State of Pernambuco. Throughout the paper, the basic features of the bidding terms are presented and some aspects of these characteristics that undermine competitiveness are pointed out and submitted to criticisms. Aspects such as the small number of lots, the lack of diversification of lot sizes and the possibility of forming consortia with unlimited number of participants were targeted. In order to prove the criticisms stated, a simulation of an arrangement amongst incumbents is presented, based on the rules of the tender, in which the allocation of incumbents ex post bidding does not differ from the ex ante scenario. Thus, the main objective of this article is to assess whether good practices that foster competition were followed by the ITB and the main conclusion is that competitiveness was put in jeopardy.

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“…A ballpark estimate of the share of central purchasing body's transactions volume over the total government spend in goods and services would be in a range between about 5% of Italy and other EU countries with similar state structure and about 40% of South Korea. 3 The relevance of centralized procurement agencies is emphasized by Carpineti et al (2006). to the whole society rather than to the final users of the procured good/service/work only.…”

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Flexible Strategies for Centralized Public Procurement

Albano

Sparro²

2010

Review of Economics and Institutions

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When designing a national public procurement system, the degree of centralization (or, equivalently, the degree of demand aggregation) is one of the most crucial as well as puzzling policy choices. Centralized procurement has been traditionally considered as an instrument to reduce public spending. In more recent years, though, and particularly after the 2008 global financial turmoil, a growing interest has arisen among both policy makers and researchers in government procurement as a lever to pursue broader policy goals, such as competitive markets structure, sustainable development and innovation. This paper reviews and discusses several issues related both to the rationales and to the practical implementation of centralized procurement strategies, with a particular focus on the procurement of goods and services.

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The variety of procurement practice: evidence from public procurement

Cited by 27 publications

References 2 publications

Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Competitive Aspects in the Metropolitan Region of Recife Bidding Terms for the Delegation of Its Urban Bus System

Flexible Strategies for Centralized Public Procurement

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