Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state … able to create a new dataset of procurement rules and practices across the U.S. and understand what actors on the ground …

institutional and regulatory reforms as well as procurement and local content. …

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Regulatory efforts on both sides of the Atlantic, in anti-corruption and procurement, are become more interdependent … new directives on procurement, and the United States and Europe moved forward in negotiating a comprehensive free trade … trade in procurement. This piece reviews the T-TIP agreement's potential impact on procurement, in the near and long term …

fixed the procurement budget and number of purchases, leads to a two percentage point increase in the probability for an R … in the context of the US government’s procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the … identity of the officer responsible for the procurement process to estimate how workload in the federal acquisition unit …

from many industrialized and developing nations, to reform and update the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods … gauge whether lessons from the UNCITRAL debate may be useful for reform in the U.S. procurement system. As the essay … lessons from reforms abroad, to ensure that U.S. procurement policy draws thoughtfully upon lessons learned from other …