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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"public procurement"”.
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Three Essays on Public Procurement
… three essays on the theory and empirics of public procurement—the process by which government defines its needs for goods and services and acquires them using contracts. The objective of this dissertation is to address three unresolved questions in the literature regarding how the …
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Systemic Interpretation in EU Public Procurement Law
… of the European Court of Justice and the EU public procurement legislation. Using the terminology of MacCormick and Siltala, the approach utilized in the study is based on the Three C’s in Legal Reasoning: from linguistic consistency to the pursuit of principled, analogy-aligned coherence …
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Value for Money in Public Procurement in Nigeria
… that influence Value for Money (VfM) in the public procurement system (PPS) of developing nations, using Nigeria’s federal government procurement system as a case study. Nigeria’s federal government procurement system is guided by the Public Procurement Act, 2007 (PPA). The primary objective …
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Anticorruption in Public Procurement - A Qualitative Research Design
… in order to examine risks of corruption in public procurement. The method involves expert interviews as the most important data collection tool and explains how to examine the information by means of a qualitative content analyze. In order to develop rigor results, the concepts of external …
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Going Green : A Study of Public Procurement Regulation
… regulation have been extensive and the issue of public procurement is gaining momentum as its true financial value and potential to impact markets are realised. This thesis aims to look at the regulation of green public procurement (GPP) by analysing findings from an in-depth case study in a …
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Promoting Gender Equality Through Gender-responsive Public Procurement
… explores the potential of gender-responsive public procurement (GRPP) as a strategic tool to promote gender equality and empower women-owned businesses (WOBs) across public and intergovernmental sectors. Through four interconnected studies, the research examines the evolution of …
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Public procurement fraud in Malaysia: A political economy approach
This study investigates the practice of public procurement fraud in Malaysia. The aim of this research is to understand the nature and extent of the persistence of procurement fraud in the Malaysian public sector. Fraud in public procurement results in large losses of public funds which are needed …
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Participation in Public Procurement
… disproportionately underrepresented in public markets. On average EU member states spend approximately 14% of their gross domestic product (GDP) concluding public supplies, services and works contracts. EU rules aim to promote cross-border trade in the Single Market by removing the …
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Role of Public Procurement in Improving the Consumption of Millets
… food access for poor consumers through the Public Distribution System (PDS). One of India's major food-based schemes is Public Distribution System costing between 14- 20 billion USD. It is also one of the largest social security programs in the world, that procures and distributes …
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"Public procurement challenges and reforms for infrastructure development in South Africa"
The public procurement process in South Africa is governed by a robust regime of laws which includes the Public Finance Management Act1 (PFMA), the Preferential Public Procurement Framework Act2 (PPPFA), the related treasury regulations and a host of internal policies formulated by the various …
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Prometheus unbound: quality of government and institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement
… denotes the particularistic allocation of public resources, that is violating prior explicit rules in order to benefit a closed network while denying access to all others. Emphasizing access to power and public resources deviates from traditional definitions of corruption resting on …
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Historical Institutionalism and Defense Public Procurement: The Case of Other Transactions Agreements
… because of the perceived bureaucracy of the DoD procurement system. Recognizing this problem, in 1989, Congress created a new type of non-procurement agreement for DoD called Other Transactions Agreements (OTs). OTs are excluded from most laws and regulations that govern traditional procurement …
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The Role of Procurement Processes on the effectiveness of Public Procurement System in Tanzania
… of efforts in addressing weaknesses in the public procurement process. However there still complaints that public procurement processes are characterized by delays, poor quality and non cost effective delivery. This study sought to analyze procurement processes in achieving effectiveness of …
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The Challenges of Compliance to Public Procurement Act 2011: A Case Study of Tanzania Ports Authority
… study examined the challenges of compliance to Public Procurement Act 2011 to Tanzania procurement entities. Specific objectives included to investigate the reasons of non-compliance to PPA 2011 internal and external to the Tanzania Procurement Entities, to analyzing the challenges of procedures …
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Improving the achievement of value for money in construction procurement under the Nigerian Public Procurement Act (2007)
… enacted an Act of Parliament known as the Public Procurement Act (PPA 2007) to govern the public-sector procurements. The PPA (2007) amongst other objectives, aims to achieve value for money on government procurements. However, opinions from the existing body of knowledge suggest that the …
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