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Public procurement of artificial intelligence systems: new risks and future proofing. [PDF]
AI Soc, 2022 Public entities around the world are increasingly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems to provide public services or to use their enforcement powers.
Hickok M.
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FOPPA: an open database of French public procurement award notices from 2010-2020. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2023 Public Procurement refers to governments' purchasing activities of goods, services, and construction of public works. In the European Union (EU), it is an essential sector, corresponding to 15% of the GDP. EU public procurement generates large amounts of data, because award notices related to contracts exceeding a predefined threshold must be published
Potin L +3 more
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Bureaucrats and Public Procurement [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual realizations of benefit and costs of the project, the second game to be played afterward.
Dieter Bös
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Public procurement and innovation [PDF]
ERA Forum, 2021 AbstractInnovation has come to the forefront of EU public procurement. Directive 2014/24/EU has given contracting authorities in the Member States a new award procedure to pursue innovation, namely the innovation partnership. Still a number of issues remain open, notably concerning the allocation of intellectual property rights that may call for the ...
Caranta, Roberto, Gomes, Pedro Cerqueira
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Scaling behavior of public procurement activity. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Public procurement refers to the purchase by public sector entities, such as government departments or local authorities, of Services, Goods, or Works. It accounts for a significant share of OECD countries' expenditures. However, while governments are expected to execute them as efficiently as possible, there is a lack of methodologies for an adequate ...
Curado A +4 more
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Public Procurement in Law and Practice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the discretion of the procuring entities. We find that laws and practice are highly correlated with each other across countries, and better practice is correlated with better outcomes, but laws themselves are not ...
Bosio, Erica +3 more
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Cogent Business & Management, 2023 Skills are important qualities that procurement practitioners should have because they are relevant to procurement activities. Given its significance, this study investigates the influence of procurement skills on procurement performance in public ...
Ismail Abdi Changalima +1 more
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Improving Public Health and Governance in COVID-19 Response: A Strategic Public Procurement Perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Good governance is the basis of dealing with major emergencies and protecting public health. It has become a major issue of the central government to construct a scientific procurement and supply system of emergency supplies.
Ran Yan, Ran Yan, Fuguo Cao
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Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study
Policy & Society, 2021 Procurement has received scholarly attention as a valuable policy tool to reach desired outcomes in society, such as innovation. While interest has grown in analyzing the impact of the ‘substantive’ function of procurement (purchasing of goods and ...
Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Roberto Vivona
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Public procurement in the EU: Jurisprudence and conceptual directions [PDF]
, 2012 The present article reviews the emerging conceptual themes from the case law of the European Court of Justice which have triggered the revision of the public procurement Directives, and the alignment of the public procurement acquis with the Europe 2020 ...
Christopher Bovis
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