Public Administration, Governance and Globalization

Volume 14

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Public Administration, Governance and Globalization

The aim of Public Administration, Governance and Globalization (PAGG) is to publish primary research and theoretical contributions as well as practical reports on fieldwork to help advance the knowledge and understanding about public, nonprofit, private, and nongovernmental organizations and institutions. The governance, administration, and management of these organizations at local, national, regional, and international levels will be discussed in the context of this age of rapid change and globalization. This series on public management offers original materials that contribute to our better understanding of the critical issues as well as routine processes of governance and public administration, now more than ever because of the intricate forces of globalization that affect almost every nation-states and their policy choices at all jurisdictions across the world. The series covers a wide range of topics that address the key issues of interest to scholars, educators, practitioners, and policymakers in public administration capacities around the globe. Books in the series could be research monographs, edited volumes, textbooks, reference volumes or handbooks.

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Khi V. ThaiEditor

International Public Procurement

Innovation and Knowledge Sharing

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Public Administration, Governance and GlobalizationISBN 978-3-319-13433-8 ISBN 978-3-319-13434-5 (eBook)DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13434-5

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EditorKhi V. ThaiSchool of Public AdministrationFlorida Atlantic UniversityBoca RatonFloridaUSA

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Preface

This book is a collection of best papers that were submitted to and presented at the 5th International Public Procurement Conference (IPPC5), which was held in Seattle, USA, August 17–19, 2012, and hosted by the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc., and Florida Atlantic University Public Procurement Research Center. Initiated in 2004, IPPC has become one of the largest international networks of public procurement practitioners and researchers in the world, a very strong evidence of global interest in this emerging profession.

At its inception in 2004, IPPC began a tradition that no other professional conference could match: All conference papers were reviewed and best papers were selected for publication in special issues of the academic Journal of Public Procurement, and an IPPC book. Particularly, these publications are published in time for distribution at the conferences.

This year, after the Great Economic Recession, 171 paper proposals (an unprecedented number) and 105 full papers were submitted. Twelve of those submitted papers did not meet our expected standard and were not accepted for presentation at the conference. Papers published in this book were selected from the pool of 105 qualified papers after subjection of two waves of peer reviews, within 4 weeks, a very short time period for members of the Scientific Committee (listed below) to review at least eight papers (as each paper was reviewed by three peer reviewers). Without their professional services, it would have been impossible to impartially select excellent papers for this volume. As co-editors of this book, we would like to thank the IPPC5 Scientific Committee members for their professional services. We would like also take this opportunity to thank The National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. that provides generous financial support of the International Public Procurement Conference. We also thank Dublin City University for hosting the conference.

It is important to note that authors of papers selected for this book should be proud of their work as their papers have survived two waves of challenging reviews, and more importantly, their papers were selected from a large pool of papers, at an acceptance rate of 14.3 %. We congratulate these authors on their book chapters and the proven quality of their research.

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Scientific Committee

Paul Davis, Dublin City University (Ireland), Co-ChairKhi V. Thai, Florida Atlantic University (USA), Co-ChairGian Albano, Public Procurement Agency known as Consip (Italy)Alessandro Ancarani, University of Catania (Italy)Hannie Badenhorst-Weiss, University of South Africa (South Africa)Bert Baeyens, Public Procurement Management VIB (Belgium)Benon Besheka, Uganda Management Institute (Uganda)Jan Braechner, Chalmers University of TechnologyAna Cristina Calderon, Inter-American Development BankGuy Callender, Curtin University of Technology (Australia)Fuguo Cao, Central University of Finance and Economics (China)Jeremy Chen, Defence Science and Technology Agency (Singapore)Paul Davis, Dublin City University (Ireland)Richard Doyle, University of New England (Australia)Andrew Erridge, University of Ulster (UK)Michael Essig, Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany)Steve Gordon, West Virginia University (USA)Baudouin Heuninckx, Defense Ministry, BelgiumAtsushi Iimi, The World BankIiao I-ming, Kaoshung University (Taiwan)Leslie E. Harper, Inter-American Development BankDavid Jones, University of Brunei (Brunei)Veiko Lember, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)Wendell Lawther, University of Central Florida (USA)Anders Lunander, Örebro University (Sweden)Sofia Lundberg, Umeå University (Sweden)Odysseus Manoliadis, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)Cliff McCue, Florida Atlantic University (USA)Teresa Medina-Arnáiz, University of Burgos (Spain)Ari Nissinen, Finnish Environment Institute (Finland)Joseph Ntayi, Makerere University (Uganda)Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam (Holland)Emanuele Padovani, University of Bologna (Italy)Katriina Parikka-Alhola, Consumption and Production Centre (Finland)Gustavo Piga, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)Jack Pitzer, City of Alexander, Virginia (USA)Eric Prier, Florida Atlantic University (USA)Sharon Purchase, University of Western Australia (Australia)Rene Rendon, Naval Postgraduate School (USA)David Salazar, Inter-American Development BankJoshua Schwartz, George Washington University (USA)Keith Snider, Naval Postgraduate School (USA)

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Edwin Tachlian, Inter-American Development BankSatoru Tanaka, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, JapanTünde Tátrai, Corvinus University of BudapeIoannis E. Tsolas, National Technical University of Athens (Greece)Junsok Yang, Catholic University (South Korea)June-Seong Yi, Ewha Woman’s University (South Korea)

Khi V. ThaiEditor

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Contents

International Public Procurement: Innovation and Knowledge Sharing ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 1Khi V� Thai

Part I Innovation and Reforms in Public Procurement

Contract Management Innovation in Public Procurement: Costa Rica’s Experience �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 13Ileana Palaco, Alicia Avendaño and Waldemar Núñez

The Municipal Partnering Initiative: Mixed Contracting in Local Government Procurement ������������������������������������������������������������������ 31David Rauch

The Impact of Changing Patterns of Commercial Card Use by the US Government on Governmental Efficiency and Cost Savings �������� 57Richard Palmer, Mahendra Gupta and Nathan Palmer

Defense Management Research Capacities and Topics: Blind Spots in Defense Acquisition Management? ������������������������������������������������ 89Christian von Deimling, Andreas H� Glas and Michael Essig

Customers’ Preferences in Municipal Waste Services Procurement ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 129Alessandro Ancarani, Carmela Di Mauro, Francesco Mascali and Liborio La Marca

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Part II Public Procurement Transparency

Rationalising Public Procurement of Complex Construction Projects by the Price Component Selection ������������������������������������������������� 145Pertti Lahdenperä

Pricing for Public Purchase: A Qualitative-Empirical Analysis of Public Procurement and Price Setting Practices ���������������������������������������� 167Michael Georgi and Sascha Kemmeter

Procurement Conspiracies and Procurement Governance: Some Lessons from Thailand ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 183Sirilaksana Khoman

Collaborative Public Procurement: A Comparative Review of the Indian Position with International Practices on Pooled Procurement from Competition Law Perspectives ������������������������������������� 203Sandeep Verma

Regulating the Pre-procurement Phase: Context and Perspectives ���������� 221Willem A� Janssen

Construction Procurers’ Perceptions of Value for Money ������������������������� 237Warren Staples

Part III Preferential Public Procurement

The Reform to EU Utilities Procurement: Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive? ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 255Eleanor Aspey

Stages of Development Towards Sustainable Public Procurement ����������� 271Tünde Tátrai

Policy Implementation of Sustainable Public Procurement in China ������� 287Conghu Wang and Xiaoming Li

The Role of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in a Sustainable Public Procurement System ����������������������������������������������������� 301Anna Górczyńska

Index ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 323

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Contributors

Alessandro Ancarani University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Eleanor Aspey University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Alicia Avendaño Digital Government Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, San José, Costa Rica

Christian von Deimling Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg (Munich), Bavaria, Germany

Carmela Di Mauro University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Michael Essig Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg (Munich), Bavaria, Germany

Michael Georgi Department of Management Accounting and Control, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

Andreas H. Glas Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg (Munich), Bavaria, Germany

Anna Górczyńska Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Mahendra Gupta St� Louis, USA

Willem A. Janssen Public Procurement Research Center and Utrecht Center for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Sascha Kemmeter Department of Management Accounting, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Sirilaksana Khoman National Anti-Corruption Commission, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Liborio La Marca University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Pertti Lahdenperä VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Tampere, Finland

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Xiaoming Li Department of Business Administration, Tennessee State University, Nashville, USA

Francesco Mascali University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Waldemar Núñez Procurement Division, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, San José, Costa Rica

Ileana Palaco Global IT Technology Program (ITTP), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

Richard Palmer Missouri, USA

David Rauch Urban Planning and Environment, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Warren Staples RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Tünde Tátrai Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Khi V. Thai School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Sandeep Verma Indian Administrative Service, New Delhi, India

Conghu Wang School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

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About the Editor

Khi V. Thai, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director, School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University. His research interest is in public budgeting, financial management and public procurement. He is editor of International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Journal of Public Procurement, and Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management. His publications include over 100 books, book chapters, technical reports, and refereed articles. He has been a consultant for the US government, United Nations, and for governments in US and Canada.