ABSTRACT

In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a great interest among managers and academics to learn from other countries’ and other sectors’ change initiatives and how they dealt with the challenges they encountered. This text provides such learning opportunities, presenting case studies of public procurement, covering diverse nations, sectors and issues.

The cases are combined with editorial commentary and contextualizing chapters to assist the student reader in understanding this complex topic. The text combines descriptions of cases of public procurement with cross case analysis to draw out the key dimensions to enable further examination of the central themes. Each case study concludes with three questions to aid its use as a teaching and training text.

Edited by a team of internationally recognised experts in the field this innovative text illustrates the strategies and innovations within public procurement on a global scale and highlights common problems that all countries encounter. Public Procurement is vital reading for anyone with an interest in this topical area.

chapter 1|15 pages

Public procurement

An introduction

chapter 3|17 pages

Public procurement reform in Western Australia

A federal–state evaluation

chapter 5|12 pages

Dutch health care organization and financing

Recent reform and its impact on purchasing

chapter 6|17 pages

Budget and organization reform

Impact on public procurement in Belgium

chapter 7|15 pages

US federal government procurement

Structure, process and current issues

chapter 8|13 pages

Public procurement in Germany

A purchasing cooperative for energy sourcing at the German Aerospace Centre

chapter 10|11 pages

Public procurement

A pillar of good governance?

chapter 14|12 pages

Consortia purchasing and logistics in the Kuopio area

Lessons learned from a four-year project

chapter 15|14 pages

The development of procurement education

The Queensland (Australia) experience

chapter 17|17 pages

The fraud/red tape dilemma in public procurement

A study of US state and local governments

chapter 18|14 pages

A new era

How to improve procurement services to clients presented by Public Works and Government Services Canada 1

chapter 19|24 pages

South African provincial government reform

Using a shared services model to transform ‘back-office' support in Gauteng Province

chapter 21|11 pages

People in public procurement

chapter 23|8 pages

Procurement

A strategic weapon for change