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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"government contracting"”.
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Essays on asymmetric information in government contracting
… of a set of essays which investigate optimal contracting policies in the presence of asymmetric information and uncertainty. The first essay studies how risk aversion and a sunk investment by the firm influence the contracting outcome. The government contracts with a single, risk-averse …
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Accommodating change? An investigation of the impacts of government contracting processes on third sector providers of homelessness services in South East England
This study investigates the impacts of government contracting on third sector providers of services for single homeless people in Southampton and Hampshire, in South East England. It focuses particularly on tendering and quality measurement. 24 interviews were conducted with representatives of 21 …
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Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses and Government Contracting: Assessing the State of Texas Procurement and Contract Management Guide Using the Federal Acquisition Regulation
… Set-asides are a fundamental component in government contracting and instrumental for SDVOSBs. By using the federal standard, policy recommendations for the State of Texas Procurement and Contract Management Guide are made.
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A dictionary of acquisition and contracting terms.
… defining words and terms used in the field of contracting. Concurrent research in this area is being conducted by students at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA and the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. Published definitions of twenty five …
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The Muse in the Classroom: Some Effects on American Nonprofit Arts Organization of Partnering with Schools
… arts organizations as well as the effects of government contracting on nonprofits.This study consists of an email/internet survey to determine how contracting with schools to provide arts activities affects nonprofit arts agency independence, vendorism, bureaucratization, costs, and artistic …
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What Makes Small Business Develop in U.S. and China? ——An Exploratory Comparative Analysis of Georgia, US and Guangxi, China
… with large firms. U.S. federal and state governments provide small business with systematic, effective, and efficient services which are primarily delivered via the SBA. The SBA is an independent agency of the federal government. It is different in China. The China Small and Medium-sized …
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Beyond Antagonistic Nonprofit Accountability: A Case Analysis of Practitioner Responses to the Contracting Regime
… and funding agency practitioners within government-nonprofit relationships. These interactions are deeply rooted in the accountability claims made by government funders and responded to by nonprofit practitioners. This dissertation outlines the implications of nonprofit-government …
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Predicting competitor restructuring using machine learning methods
… source contracts. Post financial crisis, the government has been more willing to entertain conversation with outside firms about existing contracts in the execution phase if the contracted firm is under performing budgetary and schedule terms. The contracted firm has the opportunity to defend …
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Fairness in Dispute: Understanding the Principles of Equity, Equality, and Reciprocity in Federal Procurement Contracting
… an ethical construct within federal procurement contracting using 3,548 contract dispute decisions published by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) between 2007 and 2021. It employed a multi-faceted, mixed method research design at macro, mezzo, and micro levels that used a blend …
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Blurred boundaries: Social services and the mixed economy of welfare in Aotearoa New Zealand
… by Aotearoa New Zealand’s National-led government (2008-2017) have challenged the ways in which social services are provided, funded and regulated. These initiatives include the establishment of a ‘social investment approach’, a commission of inquiry into ‘More Effective Social …
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An evaluation of short innovation contest implementation in the federal context
… for technology procurement in the context of government. Through a contest, participants approach a well-defined challenge independently, conducting different experiments to find a solution. The combination of these various "trials" leads to an increased probability for a government agency to …
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Institutional Dimensions of the Government's "Smart Buyer" Problem: Pillars, Carriers, and Organizational Structure in Federal Acquisition Management
… (Scott, 2001) to examine the problem of managing government contracting, conceptualized as the "smart buyer problem" by Kettl (1993). Kettl argued that, while embracing the market-based promises of contracting, governments have failed to develop the capacity to address even the most fundamental …
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Contracting Out in a Complex Network: An Effectiveness Analysis of EPC Program I
While government contracting out its work continues to proliferate and studies about this phenomenon have increased during the past two decades, still little is known about how effective government sponsored networks are at managing broad and complex networks of primarily non-governmental entities. …
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Assessment of City of Austin Social Service Contracting Practices
… literature review to examine all facets of government social service contracting practices. A preliminary framework is developed and utilized as a tool to analyze the performance of the City of Austin’s Health and Human Services Department’s (HHSD) social service contracting processes. …
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Design for Cost Methodology Applied to High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
… extremely expensive vehicles targeting government customers and fully complicit in the inefficiencies of government contracting. Similarly, the nuclear industry produces and still designs Ferrari-like fission reactors, with high performance metrics in terms of power density and unit …
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Policy Implementation by Executive Order: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Agency Decisions and Organizational Characteristics on Government Expenditures Through a Minority Businesses Enterprise Set-Aside Program in Ohio
Government agencies use minority business enterprises (MBEs) to provide goods, services, and access to opportunities as strategies to respond to citizens’ demand for equality in obtaining governmental bids. Set-aside programs have come under scrutiny in the United States since their inception in …
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The Effect of Self-Disclosing Misconduct on Supplier-Customer Contracting: Does It Pay to Be Transparent?
<p>Using data on contracts with government customers, I show that corporate suppliers' self-disclosure of misconduct to customers affects their future contracting prospects with those customers. Employing a generalized difference-in-differences design, I exploit a disclosure requirement mandating …