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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICYA Comprehensive Publication ProgramEDITOR-IN-CHIEFEVAN M. BERMANHuey McElveen Distinguished ProfessorLouisiana State UniversityPublic Administration InstituteBaton Rouge, LouisianaFounding EditorJACK RABINProfessor of Public Administration and Public PolicyThe Pennsylvania State University—HarrisburgSchool of Public AffairsMiddletown, Pennsylvania1. Public Administration as a Developing Discipline, Robert T. Golembiewski2. Comparative National Policies on Health Care, Milton I. Roemer, M.D.3. Exclusionary Injustice: The Problem of Illegally Obtained Evidence,Steven R. Schlesinger5. Organization Development in Public Administration, edited by Robert T. Golembiewskiand William B. Eddy7. Approaches to Planned Change, Robert T. Golembiewski8. Program Evaluation at HEW, edited by James G. Abert9. The States and the Metropolis, Patricia S. Florestano and Vincent L. Marando11. Changing Bureaucracies: Understanding the Organization before Selectingthe Approach, William A. Medina12. Handbook on Public Budgeting and Financial Management, edited by Jack Rabinand Thomas D. Lynch15. Handbook on Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations, edited byJack Rabin, Thomas Vocino, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller19. Handbook of Organization Management, edited by William B. Eddy22. Politics and Administration: Woodrow Wilson and American Public Administration,edited by Jack Rabin and James S. Bowman23. Making and Managing Policy: Formulation, Analysis, Evaluation, edited byG. Ronald Gilbert25. Decision Making in the Public Sector, edited by Lloyd G. Nigro26. Managing Administration, edited by Jack Rabin, Samuel Humes, and Brian S. Morgan27. Public Personnel Update, edited by Michael Cohen and Robert T. Golembiewski28. State and Local Government Administration, edited by Jack Rabin and Don Dodd29. Public Administration: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature, Howard E. McCurdy31. Handbook of Information Resource Management, edited by Jack Rabinand Edward M. Jackowski32. Public Administration in Developed Democracies: A Comparative Study, edited byDonald C. Rowat33. The Politics of Terrorism: Third Edition, edited by Michael Stohl34. Handbook on Human Services Administration, edited by Jack Rabinand Marcia B. Steinhauer36. Ethics for Bureaucrats: An Essay on Law and Values, Second Edition, John A. RohrAU5457 C000.indd ii7/9/2008 4:20:03 PM
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DedicationTo my wife, Xuan,and my two children, Xuan-Thu and EdwardAU5457 C000.indd ix7/9/2008 4:20:04 PM
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ContentsPreface . xvEditor .xviiContributors.xix1 International Public Procurement: Concepts and Practices .1KHI V. THAISECTION I: PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK2 Framework for Assessing the Acquisition Function at Federal Agencies .27U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE3 Assessing Federal Procurement Reform: Has the Procurement PendulumStopped Swinging? .67JOSEPH A. PEGNATO4 Analytical Framework for the Management and Reformof Public Procurement .87PAUL R. SCHAPPER, JOÃO NUNO VEIGA MALTA, AND DIANE L. GILBERT5 EU Directives as Anticorruption Measures: Excluding Corruption-ConvictedTenderers from Public Procurement Contracts .105TERESA MEDINA ARNÁIZ6 Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: A Tool for Effective Governanceof the Public Sector and Poverty Reduction .131BENON BASHEKA7 Simulation Approach to In-House versus Contracted-OutCost Comparisons .157DONALD R. DEIS, HELMUT SCHNEIDER, CHESTER G. WILMOT,AND CHARLES H. COATES, JR.8 Public Procurement Organization: A Comparisonof Purchasing’s Organizational Roles and Responsibilitiesin the Public and Private Sectors .175P. FRASER JOHNSON, MICHIEL R. LEENDERS, AND CLIFFORD MCCUExiAU5457 C000.indd xi7/9/2008 4:20:04 PM
xii䡲9 Service Sourcing .187ALESSANDRO ANCARANI10 How Many Vendors Does It Take to Screw Down a Price? A Primeron Competition in Procurement .211JEFFREY M. KEISLER AND WILLIAM A. BUEHRINGSECTION II: PROCUREMENT SYSTEMS11 Public Procurement in the United Nations System .233TORU SAKANE12 EC Regime on Public Procurement .251SUE ARROWSMITH13 U.S. Federal Government Procurement: Organizational Structure,Process, and Current Issues .291KRISTI D. CARAVELLA ROBINSON14 Public Procurement in Germany .307MICHAEL ESSIG, SANDRA DOROBEK, ANDREAS GLAS, AND SABRINA LEUGER15 China’s Government Procurement Policy and Institutional Framework:History, Structure, and Operation .323CAO FUGUO16 Overview of the Government Procurement System in South Africa .357PHOEBE BOLTON17 Public Procurement in Cambodia .375DAVID S. JONES18 Procurement Systems in Uganda .393EDGAR AGABA AND NIGEL SHIPMAN19 Public Procurement in Post-Transitional Context: The Case of Estonia . 409VEIKO LEMBER AND VEIKO VASKE20 Procurement Process in the Public Sector: An International Perspective . 427NIGEL CALDWELL AND ELMER BAKKERSECTION III: E-PROCUREMENT21 Key Issues in E-Procurement: Procurement Implementationand Operation in the Public Sector . 445SIMON CROOM AND ALISTAIR BRANDON JONES22 Factors Influencing E-Procurement Usage .459KEN DOOLEY AND SHARON PURCHASEAU5457 C000.indd xii7/9/2008 4:20:04 PM
䡲xiii23 Facilitators of Public E-Procurement: Lessons Learnedfrom the U.K., U.S., and Australian Initiatives .473KISHOR VAIDYA, GUY C. CALLENDER, AND A.S.M. SAJEEV24 Evaluation of Public E-Procurement Services Accessibility:A Multicriteria Approach .491GIUSEPPE BRUNO, EMILIO ESPOSITO, AND MICHELE MASTROIANNI25 World Bank E-Procurement for the Selection of Consultants:Challenges and Lessons Learned. 511KNUT LEIPOLD, JASON KLEMOW, FRANCINE HOLLOWAY, AND KISHOR VAIDYA26 E-Procurement Management in State Governments: Diff usionof E-Procurement Practices and Its Determinants .527M. JAE MOONSECTION IV: PUBLIC PROCUREMENT METHODS AND PRACTICES27 Best Practices: Using Spend Analysis to Help Agencies Take a More StrategicApproach to Procurement . 543U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE28 Contract Negotiations .563WENDELL C. LAWTHER29 Controlling Service Process Performance with Statistical Process Control.579RALPH G. KAUFFMAN AND PHILIP G. LIGHTFOOT30 Fixed Asset Disposal: Methods and Strategies for Disposing of PersonalProperty in the Public Sector .591DARIN MATTHEWS AND ELIZABETH GIBSON31 Enhancing Use of Past Performance as a Source Selection Criterion.613KEITH F. SNIDER AND MARK F. WALKNER32 Ban-on-Negotiations in Tender Procedures: Underminingthe Best Value for Money.631KAI KRÜGER33 Bid Protests: Theory and Practice .659ROBERT E. LLOYD34 Decision Technological Foundations of Public Procurement Processes .673CSABA CSÁKI AND PÉTER GELLÉRI35 Pricing Strategies and Cost Analysis in Public Procurement .689RUPERT G. RHODD36 Public–Private Partnerships .703LAWRENCE L. MARTIN AND COREY T. STUTTEAU5457 C000.indd xiii7/9/2008 4:20:04 PM
xiv䡲37 Market’s Response to Contract Award Announcements: Governmentversus Corporate Contracts .725STEPHEN J. LARSON AND ARMAND PICOU38 Economic Context of Public Procurement .737GUY C. CALLENDER AND DARIN MATTHEWS39 Offset Policy Design in International Procurement.749TRAVIS K. TAYLOR40 Regression Approach for Estimating Procurement Cost .763GARY W. MOORE AND EDWARD D. WHITE III41 Procurement Design: Lessons from Economic Theory and Illustrationsfrom the Dutch Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Projects .779SANDER ONDERSTAL AND FLÓRA FELSÖIndex .793AU5457 C000.indd xiv7/9/2008 4:20:04 PM
PrefaceThis book is a response to the persistent suggestion of Dr. Jack Rabin, former executive editor ofthe Public Administration and Public Policy Series. I agreed to undertake this challenging projectseveral months before Dr. Rabin’s death in late 2006. It is challenging because its scope is extremelybroad.First, from the perspective of procurement organization, how can a book cover the procurementsystems of all the countries in the world? Should it cover only national government procurement systems? Should it focus on only public procurement systems and practices in industrialized countriesand ignore the same in developing countries? Should it also cover procurement systems of publicinternational organizations such as the World Bank and its development bank group, the UnitedNations, the International Monetary Fund, etc., as these organizations have a pronouncedinfluence on procurement practices in their client countries?Second, substantially, public procurement has become a very complex function of governmentthat handles a great proportion of public expenditures (which reach 70 percent of total governmentexpenditure, according to numerous World Bank reports) and procurement expenditures (or “spends,”a term found in numerous reports and publications). Indeed, public procurement is a system thatconsists of Procurement laws and regulations, procurement organizational structure (central procurementagencies, procurement offices in user departments)Procurement processes (from procurement authorization, appropriations to contract formation,contract administration, etc.)Procurement methods (invitation to bid or request for bids, request for proposals, request forquotations, etc.)Procurement techniques (life-cycle costing, evaluation, negotiations, etc.)Procurement professionalism and workforceThird, the public procurement function of government is further complicated when publicprocurement, due to the size of its spending, becomes a policy tool that policy makers use to addresssocial issues (helping minority/women-owned enterprises, and small and medium firms), economicdevelopment (local preferences), and environment protection (green procurement). These policyconcerns have made procurement practices more complicated. Finally, the recent globalizationmovement has further complicated public procurement as procurement officials have to comply withnot only national laws and regulations but also to international trade agreements.Thus, despite its deceptive size, this handbook cannot cover the entire spectrum of internationalpublic procurement. In addition to the broad scope of public procurement, there are other constraints.xvAU5457 C000.indd xv7/9/2008 4:20:05 PM
xvi䡲First, as we all know, public procurement has until recently been a neglected area of research.Consequently, getting a good number of submitted papers is always a major challenge. Fortunately,the international network that I have built via the International Public Procurement Conferenceand the International Research Study of Public Procurement workshops, including Professors GuyCallender (Curtin University of Technology, Australia), Christine Harland (University of Bath,England), Gustavo Piga (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), and Jan Telgen (University ofTwente, the Netherlands), has resulted in a good number of chapter proposals and full paper submissions. Second, chapters selected for this book had to be of a very high quality. A number ofsubmitted chapters covering very meaningful issues failed to clear our rigorous review process.Finally, I would like to thank the staff of Taylor & Francis for their attention to detail, thetimeliness of their work, and their suggestions throughout the publication process. I am indebtedto Rosalyn Carter, dean, College of Architecture and Urban and Public Affairs, Florida AtlanticUniversity (FAU), for asking me to manage a new partnership project between FAU and theNational Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. (NIGP). In this partnership, I had a chanceto work with Rick Grimm, chief executive officer, NIGP, to whom I am truly grateful for his beliefthat practitioner/academic partnership, and knowledge and innovation sharing elevate publicprocurement.Khi V. ThaiAU5457 C000.indd xvi7/9/2008 4:20:05 PM
EditorKhi V. Thai is a professor at the School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University. Professor Thai has taught since 1978 (University of Maine, 1978–1990; and Florida Atlantic University,1990–present). His expertise is in public budgeting, financial management, and public procurement.He served as a director of the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University(1992–1996), and as a founder and former director of the Public Procurement Research Center atFlorida Atlantic University (1999–2007). He organized a variety of training programs, particularlyinternational training programs, and has provided technical assistance to governments in the UnitedStates and other countries in Africa and Latin America.He is the editor of three academic journals (Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & FinancialManagement, Journal of Public Procurement, and International Journal of Organization Theory andBehavior); has served on editorial boards of eight academic journals; and has authored/coauthoredand edited/coedited over 100 refereed journal articles, technical reports, book chapters, and journalsymposiums and books. Seven of his twelve books are on public procurement, including Introductionto Public Procurement (2nd ed.) (2007), Developing and Managing Requests for Proposals in the PublicSector (2nd ed.) (2008), Economics of Public Procurement (2007), and Advancing Public Procurement:Practices, Innovation and Knowledge Sharing (2007).xviiAU5457 C000.indd xvii7/9/2008 4:20:05 PM
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ContributorsEdgar Agaba, MA, is an executive director and technical advisor of the Ugandan Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority. He is a member of the Uganda Bar and has beeninvolved with the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmentin projects to strengthen procurement capacity in developing countries.Alessandro Ancarani, PhD, is an associate professor of managerial engineering, in the economical,managerial, and valuation engineering section, in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at the University of Catania, Italy. Ancarani’s expertise is in public services sourcing, performance evaluation, service quality, facilities management services procurement, supplier evaluation, and E-public services. He was one of the founders of the managerial engineering program at theUniversity of Catania, and he is the Italian representative in the management committee of the C18Cost Action program in the European Commission. He is associate editor of the Journal of Purchasingand Supply Management and is a reviewer for several international journals; he has authored/coauthored and edited/coedited over 70 refereed journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, and books. Some of the books he has edited are Sourcing Decision Management (2005) andPerformance Evaluation in Public Services (2003). He is member of the IPSERA executive committee.Teresa Medina Arnáiz is an admini
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