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 …

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Congress passed new exceptions to U.S. procurement rules. The most important … that are an important part of the U.S. procurement system. This comment reviews that emergency legislation, and suggests … that the new law, by abandoning basic principles of sound procurement, raises real risks in the post-Katrina relief effort …

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

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 …

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 … officer is exposed to a declining workload. In our sample, an additional contracting officer in the procurement unit, holding …

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 …