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The most significant unanticipated costs on many construction projects are the financial impacts associated with delay and disruption to the works. Assessing these, and establishing a causal link from each delay event to its effect, contractual liability and the damages experienced as a direct...
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This book gives an analysis of privatization and restructuring by the Treuhandanstalt in East Germany. It also addresses the theoretical and conceptual problems of large-scale privatization in the transformation process
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“Probity audits” are a new type of audit gaining some popularity in the Australian public sector. Probity audits refer to independent reviews of government privatisations, contracting out projects (government procurements), and expression of interests to ascertain whether procedures followed...
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Rework has become an endemic feature of the procurement process in construction, which invariably leads to time and cost overruns in projects. Thus, in order to improve the performance of projects it is necessary to identify the causes and costs of rework. The research presented in this paper...
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Government contractors operate under circumstances unmatched in the commercial marketplace. A significant factor for conducting business in that environment is the use of heavy regulations. Government regulations for defence contractors include such procurement requirements as cost accounting...
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contracts as immaterial contracts and, generally, they do not include any note of the outsourcing contracts in the financial …
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. The refuse collection service was an early example of this, following the return of a Conservative Government to Britain … in 1979. The history of the refuse collection service is outlined and the problems and opportunities auditors may … encounter in their dealings with this service are described. Overcoming resistance to change is suggested as a major factor …
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-public contracts funded by the government are common in the industrial economy, we conclude by discussing implications for …
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a sustainable perspective, function and dysfunction of contracts relate to irreversibility to be designed as transfer …, stalemate, oscillation and phase lag. Research limitations/implications – Contracts appear as the product of a rational decision … contracts in a long range perspective through the implementation of action‐based scenarios method.  …
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less free to sell or buy sexual services. If freedom exists, contracts can be spoken about; if not, a contractual point of …
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