Public contracts seem to be “expensive” and “inefficient” compared to pure private contracts. Higher prices and inefficiencies in the implementation of public contracts result from their specificity and rigidity, which is how public agents limit hazards from third-party opportunism. We...

Local government, as administrative units, performs a broad range of services that require to establish relations with outside partners, including those belonging to the private sector. Public procurement, due to the size of the involved financial flows, is government activity especially exposed...

Research on government e-procurement suggests the existence of price savings ranging from 5% to 20% of the total value of public purchases, which also account for a significant part of GDP. Nevertheless, there is no clear view about the consequences of that saved money. This paper points out,...

This paper has adopted the exploratory case study method of analyzing a few recent cases of public procurement irregularities on Indian Railways documented by the vigilance departments and the CAG available in public domain to inquire into the following issues: (a) how do irregularities and...

Many times, benefit-opportunity-cost-risk (BOCR) information system (IS)-related decisions are based mainly on short-term financial variables. We propose a broader decision-making framework, using contingency theory to identify environmental specific factors and assimilation theory to identify...

Italian Abstract: Lo studio analizza le principali misure in tema di lavori pubblici introdotte dal nuovo Codice dei contratti pubblici, al fine di valutare quanto esse potranno contribuire al superamento delle principali criticità del mercato italiano, caratterizzato da una domanda pubblica...

Some U.S. local governments are leveraging public procurement to meet their sustainability goals. However, does the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives potentially slow down the speed of procurement processes? We suggest that the simultaneous pursuit of multiple...

This paper analyzes the relationship between discretion of public spending and corruption in answering to the following research question: tighter procurement rules, as a proxy to discretion in spending, result in lower prevalence of corruption in Brazilian municipalities? The empirical strategy...

This short piece discusses recent (internal) Justice Department guidance for attorneys handling False Claims (FCA) Act cases. In a dramatic policy and practice shift, the memorandum recommends that “when evaluating a recommendation to decline intervention in a qui tam action, attorneys should...