Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists, and Other Public Procurement Tools
Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists, and Other Public Procurement Tools

Author: Serban Filipon

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-07-13

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1509959920

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This book looks at regulation, policy and implementation of framework agreements, supplier lists and other similar public procurement tools, with a strategic and pragmatic perspective. Whilst procurements of huge volumes and value are performed worldwide through such tools on a daily basis, and despite their complexity and diversity, this topic has rarely been studied in a systematic way. The book fills this major gap. It examines a series of public procurement systems or legal instruments selected to ensure wide coverage – the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement, the World Bank, the US federal procurement system, EU law, France, Romania, and the UK pre- and post-Brexit. By deconstructing over 20 'clusters' of tools into their key features along a pattern for analysis, the book reconstructs a conceptual framework for purchasing uncertain or indefinite requirements through a transversal perspective across public procurement systems. In this way, the book provides valuable orientation to law and policy makers for improving or reforming this area, to procurement officers in interpreting existing regulation and identifying innovative practical solutions, and to lawyers and the judiciary for a balanced application of the regulation. The book delivers essential material for procurement of uncertain or indefinite requirements.

The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements
The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements

Author: Gian Luigi Albano

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1107077966

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This book addresses the increasing demand for a logical understanding of how framework agreement should be used and implemented.

UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement
UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement

Author: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

Publisher: UN

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789211337235

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The Model Law is a template for domestic procurement legislation. Its main objectives are to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, and to avoid abuse in the procurement process (through promoting competition and participation, integrity, fair and equitable treatment and transparency). It is used by the multilateral development banks as a tool for procurement reform and as part of the country systems approach to procurement. The Model Law contains procedures to implement its objectives, whether procurement is conducted electronically or on paper; and reflects the professionalization of the procurement function (which has characterized recent developments in procurement).

Public Procurement Regulation in Africa
Public Procurement Regulation in Africa

Author: Sue Arrowsmith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1107028329

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This book examines the regulatory rules on public procurement in selected African countries and provides a comparative analysis of key regulatory issues.

Public Procurement and Human Rights
Public Procurement and Human Rights

Author: Olga Martin-Ortega

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1788116313

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This timely work reflects on the role and obligations of the state as a buyer of goods and services, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights. Through theoretical and doctrinal analyses, and practice-focused case studies, it interrogates the evolving character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies. Challenging the prevailing paradigm which subordinates human rights to narrowly-defined economic goals, insightful contributions advance a compelling case for greater inter-disciplinarity and policy coherence as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

OECD Principles for Integrity in Public Procurement
OECD Principles for Integrity in Public Procurement

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-03-24

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9264056521

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The OECD Principles for Integrity in Public Procurement are a ground-breaking instrument that promotes good governance in the entire procurement cycle, from needs assessment to contract management.

Local Government Contracts and Procurement
Local Government Contracts and Procurement

Author: Helen Randall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

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Aiming to assist lawyers and purchasing managers and managers in client departments with complex contracts, this guide offers guidance through the key stages of procurement tendering, selecting, negotiating and managing commercial contracts in the context of Best Value.

Corrupt Exchanges
Corrupt Exchanges

Author: Donatella Della Porta

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780202365190

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Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism. Recently, however, the thesis of an inverse correlation between corruption and economic and political development (and therefore democratic "maturity") has been frequently and convincingly challenged. Countries with a long democratic tradition, such as the United States, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, have all experienced a combination of headline-grabbing scandals and smaller-scale cases of misappropriation. In "Corrupt Exchanges," primary research on Italian cases (judicial proceedings, in-depth interviews, parliamentary documents, and press databases), combined with a cross-national comparison based on a secondary analysis of corruption in democratic systems, is used to develop a model to analyze corruption as a network of illegal exchanges. The authors explore in great detail the structure of that network, by examining both the characteristics of the actors who directly engage in the corruption and the resources they exchange. These processes of degeneration have caused a crisis in the dominant paradigm in both academic and political considerations of corruption. The book is organized around the analysis of the resources that are exchanged and of the different actors who take part. Politicians in business, illegal brokers, Mafia members, protected entrepreneurs, and party-appointed bureaucrats exchange resources on the illegal market, altering the institutional system of interactions between the state and the market. In this complex web of exchanges, bonds of trust are established that allow the corrupt exchange to thrive. The book will serve both as a theoretical approach to a political problem of large bearing on democratic institutions and a descriptive warning of a system in peril.