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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik - 2011

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. Taken as a whole, the empirical literature indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces...

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Firms' experience of SME-friendly policy and their participation and success in public procurement

Flynn, Anthony; Davis, Paul - In: Journal of small business and enterprise development 23 (2016) 3, pp. 616-635

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A review of general practice in contracting public transport services and transfer to BRT systems

Pedro, Marisa J. G.; Macário, Rosário - In: Research in transportation economics 59 (2016), pp. 94-106

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

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Workshop 1 Report: Developing an effective performance regime

Veeneman, Wijnand; Smith, Andrew - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 62-66

This workshop discussed the challenges faced in developing performance regimes: in particular, the way in which public transport authorities secure the performance of their operator(s). Earlier Thredbo workshops focused mostly on setting and measuring performance standards and incentivizing...

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Service quality on three management levels

Camén, Carolina - In: International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences 2 (2010) 3, pp. 317-334

contribution by empirically investigating physical contracts used in a public tendering context, which focus on service quality …

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The practice of probity audits in one Australian jurisdiction

Ng, Chew; Ryan, Christine - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 16 (2001) 2, pp. 69-75

“Probity audits” are a new type of audit gaining some popularity in the Australian public sector. Probity audits refer to independent reviews of government privatisations, contracting out projects (government procurements), and expression of interests to ascertain whether procedures followed...

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Multiple‐objective bidding strategy using goal programming technique

Tan, Yongtao; Shen, Liyin; Lu, Weisheng; Shen, Qiping - In: Management Decision 46 (2008) 4, pp. 656-672

meeting the multiple objectives defined by a project client in bidding for a contract. Design/methodology/approach – By … find out its own most competitive strategy in bidding for construction contracts where multiple selection criteria are … adopted. A goal programming optimal bidding strategy (GP‐OBS) model is introduced to help a contractor generate an optimal …

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Firms’ experience of SME-friendly policy and their participation and success in public procurement

Flynn, Anthony; Davis, Paul - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 23 (2016) 3, pp. 616-635

/methodology/approach – Hypothesised relationships between SME-friendly policy and three outcome variables – frequency of tendering, success rate in public … towards the public sector marketplace. It is not significant in explaining frequency of tendering. Research limitations …

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Bidding for incentive contracts

Julien, Benoît; Roger, Guillaume - In: Journal of mathematical economics 79 (2018), pp. 95-105

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