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PurposeThe procurement and supply of crucial healthcare products in the early stages of the COVID-19 emergency were chaotic. To prepare for future crises, we must be able to describe what went wrong, and why, and map out ways to build agility and ...
C. Harland+7 more
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This article traces the organization of corruption in public procurement, by theoretically and empirically assessing the contribution of extra-legal governance organizations (EGO) to supporting it.
Mihály Fazekas, S. Sberna, A. Vannucci
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Public Procurement Process Design and Small and Medium Enterprises Access to Contracts in Uganda [PDF]
Small and Medium Enterprises are often excluded from public procurement contracts due to several factors. We need effective public procurement policies, systems and personnel to ensure that the opportunities are scaled up rapidly, transparently and ...
Peter Obanda
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Addressing Sustainability within Public Procurement of Food: A Systematic Literature Review
Public procurement has been recognized as a tool to promote more sustainable production and consumption practices. As such, an increasing body of literature has become available in recent years focusing on the sustainable public procurement of food. This
Elvira Molin+2 more
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Public procurement of innovation is a key policy instrument for improving the quality of public services and achieving wider benefits for society. Recently, innovation contests have re-emerged as a means to procure innovative new solutions.
Matti Pihlajamaa, Maria Merisalo
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Public procurement has recently taken into account social and sustainable factors, increasing academic literature in this field. The aim of this paper is to map the intellectual structure of social and sustainable public procurement research by means of ...
Jose Torres-Pruñonosa+3 more
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Transposition of the EU Public Procurement Directives 2014 in Austria [PDF]
The EU public procurement directives 2014 further advance the European Commission’s ambitions to regulate most public procurement at the EU-wide level.
Bernt Elsner, Ruth Bittner
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Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform [PDF]
In recent years, the analysis of economic crime and corruption in procurement has benefited from integrative studies that acknowledge the interconnected nature of the procurement ecosystem. Following this line of research, we present a networks approach for the analysis of shell-companies operations in procurement that makes use of contracting and ...
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ANTI-CORRUPTION MONITORING IN THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
Taking into account the growing imbalance in the field of public procurement management towards the "shadow economy", corruption manifestations, we consider it appropriate to study the impact of anti-corruption monitoring tools on the effectiveness of ...
Gulsara Junusbekova, Zhaslan Khamitov
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Foreign participation in federal biddings: A quantitative approach using the procurement panel [PDF]
The bidding is the Public Administration's administrative process and other designated persons by law to select the best proposal, through objective and impersonal criteria, for contracting services and purchasing goods. In times of globalization, it is common for companies seeking to expand their business by participating in biddings.
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