Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: International public procurement: a conceptual framework -- 1. Public procurement: a conceptual framework: Framework for assessing the acquisition function at federal agencies -- Assessing federal procurement reform: has the procurement pendulum stopped swinging -- Analytical framework for the management and reform of public procurement -- EU directives as anticorruption measures: excluding corruption-convicted tenderers from public procurement contracts – Public procurement reforms in Africa: a tool for effective governance of the public sector and poverty reduction -- Simulation approach to in-house versus contracted-out cost comparisons -- Public procurement organization: a comparison of purchasing’s organizational roles and responsibilities in the public and private sectors -- Service sourcing –How many vendors does it take to screw down a price? A primer on competition in procurement -- 2. Procurement systems: Public procurement in the United Nations system -- EC regime on public procurement – U.S. federal government procurement: Organizational structure, process and current issues -- Public procurement in Germany -- China’s government procurement policy and international frame work: history, structure and operation -- Overview of the government procurement system in South Africa -- Public procurement in Cambodia -- Procurement in Uganda -- Public procurement in post- transitional context: the case of Estonia -- Procurement process in the public sector -- 3. E- procurement: Key issues In E-procurement implementation and operation in the public sector -- Factors influencing E-procurement usage -- Facilitators of public E- procurement: lessons learned from the U.K., U.S., and Australian initiatives – Evaluation of public E- procurement services accessibility: a multicriteria approach -- World bank E-procurement for the selection of consultants: challenges and lessons learned -- E-procurement management in state governments: diffusion of E-procurement practices and its -- 4.Public procurement methods and practices: Best practices: Using spend analysis to help agencies take a more strategic approach to procurement -- Contract negotiations -- Controlling service process performance with statistical process control -- Fixed asset disposal: methods and strategies for disposing of personal property in the public sector -- Enhancing the use of past performance as a source selection criterion -- Ban-on-negotiations in tender procedures: undermining the best value for money -- Bid protests: theory and practice -- Decision technological foundations of public procurement processes -- Pricing strategies and cost analysis in public procurement -- Public-private partnerships -- Market’s response to contract award announcements: government versus corporate contracts -- Economic context of public procurement -- Offset policy design in international procurement -- regression approach for estimating procurement cost -- Procurement design: lessons from economic theory and illustrations from the Dutch procurement of welfare-to-work projects --