Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy

The recent decade has witnessed a growing interest in using public procurement to spur innovation and development. An increasing number of governments are claiming that public procurement—often worth of 10–30 % of a country’s GDP as exemplified by European Union member countries (EC 2011b)—should be used more extensively and explicitly to promote innovation, technology, and economic…

OECD Principles for Integrity in Public Procurement

Governments and state-owned enterprises purchase a wide variety of goods, services and public works from the private sector, from basic computer equipment to the construction of roads. Public procurement is a key economic activity of governments that represents a significant percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) generating huge financial flows, estimated on average at 10-15% of GD…

Bribery in Public Procurement

Public works contracts are big business. From major infrastructure projects such as power stations and roads to building public universities and equipping them with telecommunications, government purchasing for goods and services carries enormous financial power. In fact, in OECD countries, public procurement is estimated to account for 15% of GDP; in many non- OECD countries, that figure …

Designing Public Procurement Policy in Developing Countries

Growth performance in developing economies has recently been quite impressive. In parallel, fiscal health has improved. These factors are driving public and private spending capacity in these economies. This chapter attempts at estimating and projecting (1) public procurement outlays devoted to machinery and equipment in these economies; and (2) importations arising from these outlays. Res…

Damages in EU Public Procurement Law

“The EU Public Procurement Directives are hidden to most relevant actors behind the veil of the transposing national law. As a result the problem of unavailable damages remains defi ned by the national perspective. While considering the same problem, this book shifts the perspective to the point of view of EU law. What can EU law do in order to improve the effectiveness of damages for vio…

Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy

This study is about the macroeconomics of positive externalities or industrial spillovers around advanced production. It is a case study, using different methods to generalize from cases at the microproduction and market levels to economic value creation and macroeconomic growth. I use the Swedish military aircraft industry as an illustrative case, and in particular the major industrial pr…

Public Procurement’s Place in the World

The seven essays in this volume address different issues related to green and innovation procurement as well as more general challenges in public procurement. These studies address both general, abstract problems of optimal public procurement and concrete cases of national or even local public procurement systems. The evidence that they present covers a broad spectrum of countries including…

Public Authority Procurement Strategy

Procurement is an expensive process. The potential for waste and error is high. The potential for failing to meet people’s expectations is higher still. The process needs to be properly planned and managed. Whilst the Authority is well advised to have a team of trained specialists, an experienced individual should be identified to take responsibility for the management of the procurement…

EU Public Procurement Law

Public procurement is a powerful exercise. It carries the aptitude of acquisition; it epitomizes economic freedom; it depicts the nexus of trade relations amongst economic operators; it represents the necessary process to deliver public services; it demonstrates strategic policy options. Public procurement as a discipline expands from a simple topic of the common market, to a multifaceted …

Public Procurement in the European Union

The regulation of public procurement in the European Union has been the cinderella of the European integration. Often neglected as a discipline of European law and policy, although directly relevant to the fundamental principles of the common market, public procurement has not received equal priority to other regulatory regimes by the Member States of the European Union. As one of the maj…

PUBLIC TECHNOLOGY PROCUREMENT AND INNOVATION

In this volume we discuss theory, evidence, and policy perspectives concerning the use of public technology procurement as an instrument of innovation policy. Public technology procurement (as defined in Chapter 1, part I), occurs when a public agency places an order for a product or system that does not yet exist, requiring technological innovation for the order to be met. The most extens…

The Environmental Performance of Public Procurement

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: – to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and…

Accountability in Public Expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean

This book looks at the specific institutional arrangements and the policy choices that underpin the management of public finances in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It draws primarily from a sample of publicly available Country Financial Accountability Assessments and Country Procurement Assessment Reports undertaken at regular intervals by the World Bank and its development partn…

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND THE EU COMPETITION RULES

Public procurement and competition law are both important fields of EU law and policy, intimately intertwined in the creation of the internal market. Hitherto their close connection has been noted, but not closely examined. Th is work is the most comprehensive attempt to date to explain the many ways in which these fields, oft en considered independent of one another, interact and overlap i…

Introduction to Risk Management in the Public Procurement of Innovation

This guide aims to provide an overview of risk management in the context of public procurement of innovation (PPI). By definition, pursuing an innovative solution is a process that involves a higher degree of uncertainty towards the intended result compared to choosing for a proven solution. These uncertainties often act as a major barrier to innovation. Therefore, risk management is a key suc…

EMERGING DIGITAL MARKETING TRENDS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2013

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Introduction to Public Safety Project Management

What are some other things that you guys have felt that have-- why you've Page 7 of 21 been selected as a project manager; even though you're not in a project management office or you're working there with everybody else? What are some other things? Why do you feel you were tagged? Student: Well in my case, one that I just turned around they said, "Okay, you're in charge of this." It'…

Public Administration and Business$ Administration: Siamese Management Tw…

Countless scholars and practitioners over the years have attempted to legitimize the field of public administration, make sense of  the  so-­‐called  public administration dichotomy, and to reinforce  or erase the connections  between public  administration and its more popular  and more perhaps more heartless sibling, business administration.

TRB Special Report 319: Between Public and Private Mobility: Examining the R…

nformation and communication technologies, combined with smartphone applications and location data from global positioning systems, are making feasible transportation services that have long been imagined but never realized on a large scale. These innovations include carsharing; bikesharing; microtransit services; and, most notably, transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft.…

COMPARISION OF GIS-BASED PUBLIC SAFETY SYSTEMS FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Disaster and emergency response and recovery efforts require timely interaction and coordination of public emergency services in order to save lives and property. Today computer-based application guidance systems, also called Public Safety Systems, are used for the coverage of emergencies. In this paper we sketch the structure and functions of these systems and describe which roll Geographic In…

WOMAN AND THE REPUBLIC

The introduction to the "History of Woman Suffrage," published in 1881-85, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, contains the following statement: "It is often asserted that, as woman has always been man's slave, subject, inferior, dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition; but that her condition is abnormal…

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For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future

In 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee to examine three topics in relation to public health: measurement, the law, and funding. The committee’s complete three-part charge is provided in Box P-1. The IOM Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health explored the topics in the context of contemporary opportunities and c…

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