This short law paper looks at the fast-evolving need for data protection, data confidentiality and data privacy in government contracts and licenses, especially when secret or citizen data available with the Government gets shared with private contractors providing goods and public services...

This law brief analyses the impact on foreign suppliers and sub-contractors of recent changes made to the US federal public procurement landscape especially by the new Administration, through new changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation as well as some recent Executive Officers

This occasional paper explores proposals made by some stakeholders to shift India's bid comparison systems prevalent in public contracts from the traditional "least price technically acceptable" to "quality and cost based selection". The paper has been especially written as background reading...

Life cycle costing (LCC) is an extremely alluring procurement technique for government contracting professionals in developing countries, given its potential for reducing budgetary outgoes through lowered total cost of ownership during the entire life cycle of procured public assets. However,...

Historically, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have insisted upon borrowing countries' use of MDB procurement guidelines for conduct of procurement actions under externally-aided projects, based on the assumption that MDB procurement frameworks are more effective and promote greater...

Integrity Pacts (IPs) have been adopted in a number of countries as an instrument for greater public oversight over possible corruption in government organisations, with application both in defence as well as in civilian purchases. In addition to their anti-corruption objectives, these pacts...

The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major civilian or defence contracts is not new, and recent years in particular have seen a number of countries, both developed and developing, apply offsets and industrial...

Public-private partnerships (PPP's) have been successfully implemented in a large number of basic infrastructure projects and in the provisioning of public services; and this model has been found to achieve better cost-efficiencies and improved delivery of customer services under certain...

This short paper explores certain issues unique to competitive evaluation and award of procurement contracts based on unsolicited proposals relating to public infrastructure projects and concessions, with a focus exclusively on projects that do not involve proprietary intellectual property...