As the climate crisis accelerates and governments aspire to achieve more circular economies, this article encourages experimentation with innovative, interdisciplinary, and sustainable approaches that exploit governments’ enormous spending power. Rather than waiting for legislative or...

Time overruns are common in public works and are not confined to inherently complex tasks. One explanation advanced in this paper is that bidders can undergo unpredictable changes in production costs which generate an option value of waiting. By exploiting the real-option approach, we examine...

Procurement professionals will play a critical role in the belated but necessary effort to slow the pace of climate change. That critical, evolved role will lie in sustainable procurement, which, if effectively implemented, will dramatically alter markets and fundamentally change purchasing...

Public-private partnership is a solution in the management of public services by government authorities. Often faced with budget restrictions and laws limits, the administration was asked to address the problem of investments to develop local communities. In this issue has been addressed...

An analysis of provisions -- an exception to copyright and a compulsory licence -- proposed to be introduced into the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, in order to make available to disabled persons copies of copyrighted works in accessible formats. (These provisions have been included in the Indian...

Contracts as we all know is a promise enforceable by law and once a valid contract has been entered into the parties are obliged to fulfill its terms and condition. However in a contract where government is a party a sort of special protection is accorded to the government as it is believed that...