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Public procurement

2007
The public sector represents about 40 to 45 per cent of many economies in the developed world in terms of spend on providing services and procuring from the private sector. Internationally there are outliers, such as Singapore, where it is only about 18 per cent of the economy, and some of the African nations where, as nationalized industries are still
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Public Procurement

Public procurement is big business. International organisations and governments at national, regional, state and city levels are major buyers of goods and services. However, public procurement is a relatively under-researched and new discipline, which, uniquely, brings together contributions from the fields of economics and law.
Sue Arrowsmith, Luke R A Butler
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The Public Procurement of IS -- A Process View

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2014
This paper addresses a lack of research into public procurement of information systems, especially from a process focus. Three case studies from IS procurement in Norwegian municipalities are presented. By following one of the procurements in detail, the paper shows a process with a very strict phased division, an approach quite different from today's ...
Moe, C., Newman, M
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CARTELS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2012
Public procurement markets differ from all others because quantities do not adjust with prices but are fixed by the bidding authority. As a result, there is a high incentive for organizing cartels (where the price elasticity of demand is zero below the base price) that are quite stable because there are no lasting benefits for cheaters.
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COMPARING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AUCTIONS

International Economic Review, 2018
AbstractThis article contrasts two auction formats often used in public procurement: first price auctions with ex post screening of bid responsiveness and average bid auctions (ABAs), in which the bidder closest to the average bid wins. The equilibrium analysis reveals that their ranking is ambiguous in terms of revenues, but the ABA is typically less ...
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