Download or read book The Role of Competitive Tendering in the Efficient Provision of Local Services written by Council of Europe. Steering Committee on Local and Regional Authorities and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Competitive Tendering in the Efficient Provision of Local Services written by Council of Europe. Steering Committee on Local and Regional Authorities and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competing for Quality written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competing for Quality written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment. Local Government Division 3 and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competition in Local Services written by Darryl R. Biggar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document (of 196 pages) comprises the proceedings of an OECD roundtable on promoting competition in local services with a special focus on competition in handling solid waste. Many natural monopolies are not under the authority of central or federal government, but are the responsibility of local or municipal governments. Do local governments have incentives to ensure competition and efficiency in the provision of services under their authority? The answer may depend on central-local government relations and factors such as the size of transfers of funds from central to local government. In most cities, one such natural monopoly is the collection of solid waste from households and small business. How should the collection of solid waste be organised? Because the level of sunk investment in providing these services is limited, they can be purchased through competition for-the-market in the form of competitive tendering. Experience in many cities shows that competitive tendering can yield greater efficeincy and lower prices than either self-provision or regulated monopoly. However, competitive tendering is far from straightforward. Close attention must be paid to promoting competition in the bidding process, to the prevention of hold-up problems and to maintaining the incentives for investment, quality and efficient adjustment of prices over the life of the contract. How might competition in the bidding process be enhanced? What is the proper role of competition law enforcement? What is the best way to ensure that quality is maintained over the life of the contract? This document consists of a background paper by the Secretariat, country submissions from 9 OECD countries and a summary of the oral discussion.
Download or read book Questions About the Initiative of the European Commission Concerning the Awarding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering of Public Service Concessions written by Helmut Cox and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ruling of the European Commission is that the award of contracts by regional or local authorities for the provision of services of general economic interest must be done by way of competitive tendering. Such contracts must not be awarded to the authority's own public enterprises or to any other enterprise, including by means of unilateral State act, without a call for tenders, a practice that had previously been common in many Member States. Public service concessions are also subject to the competition rules of the EC Treaty. Should the European Commission enact a directive concerning compulsory competitive tendering, this would result, for several Member States, in a serious change of paradigm as regards the awarding of public service concessions. Against this background, this article will attempt to find answers to the following questions: ő How is the present relationship of the regional or local authority with its own public enterprise to be considered? ő Are there any limits to applying the rules on competition of the EC Treaty to public service concessions? ő What kind of positive and negative effects concerning economic efficiency and supply of specific public services result from the awarding of public service concessions and from compulsory competitive tendering? ő What kind of, and what amount of, transaction costs result from compulsory competitive tendering and from the awarding of concessions? ő Does competitive tendering work properly, and are public tenderers given equal opportunities? ő Are there any alternatives to compulsory competitive tendering that would achieve an efficient market performance and provide sufficient supply?
Download or read book Compulsory Competitive Tendering in Local Government written by Austin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competitive tendering An effective tool in ensuring value for money in public sector written by Dr. David Ackah and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, Note: A, , Veranstaltung: Economiics, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This research report was carried out on the topic, “competitive tendering as an effective tool in ensuring value for money in public sector procurement’’. The main objective for this study was to examine how competitive tendering could be used as an effective tool to achieve value for money in public sector procurement at the Ahanta West District Assembly. The researcher administered twenty (20) questionnaires to some selected departments in the organization, specifically the procurement unit, the stores department, the accounting department and then the engineering department. The researcher used purposive sampling as a technique to gather ample information for this work. By purposive sampling, the researcher targeted those departments within the organization whose daily activities have direct bearing on procurement. Information gathered were analyzed critically and presented in the form of tables which is readily understandable. It was found out from the analyses that the Ahanta West District Assembly uses the competitive tendering methods in awarding most of their contracts thereby procuring goods, works and services at affordable and competitive prices. However the major problem identified was that, the processes involved are seen to be complex more especially for some contractors and those employees who have little knowledge in procurement when it comes to works and also the problem of political interference .The researcher finally recommended that series of workshops and seminars should be organized for both procurement officers especially new ones who have little knowledge in practical procurement when it comes to works and potential contractors so that they will have more insight into what goes into the preparations or processing of tender documents and lastly the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) should institute measures to monitor the adherence to the public procurement Act 663 in all public institutions.
Download or read book Competing for Quality written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Procurement at the Local Level in Austria written by Gabriel Obermann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper looks at possible problems concerning the economic effects of the introduction of an compulsory competitive tendering for general economic interest services at the local level. It examines the framework in Austria and some fundamental problems of competitive tendering. An obligation binding local authorities to put general economic interest services up for competitive tender, as currently intended by the European Commission (i.e. service concessions), would have considerable medium- and long-term effects on both the process of municipal service provision and the economic position of municipal (public) enterprises. The paper concludes that, from an economic point of view, procurement through competitive tendering does not appear to be effective or tenable for all general economic interest services in (all) different areas. The introduction of compulsory competitive tendering for service concessions in all areas of public services is therefore something best forgotten.
Download or read book Competition in Practice written by Public and Local Service Efficiency Campaign (PULSE) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Compulsory Competitive Tendering on Local Authorities written by Philip Geoffrey Gosling and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competetive Tendering Competing for Quality Competition in the Provision of Local Services written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment; Scottish Office; Welsh Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Government Relations in Europe written by Michael J. Goldsmith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe. There have been significant changes in local government, and the European Union has come to play an increasing role in relation to municipal government. This book offers a comparative analysis of recent developments in intergovernmental relations in twelve countries across Europe. Using the framework for analysis from Page and Goldsmith’s 1987 Central and Local Government Relations, each chapter examines changes in central-local relations in their respective country over the past 20 years. This book extends the coverage to include, for the first time, both federal systems and Eastern European countries. Offering detailed empirical studies, it assesses how far there have been changes in the functions, access and discretion of local government. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of local government, urban politics, EU studies and public administration.
Download or read book Innovations in Financing Public Services written by S. Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing. It includes case studies taken from the Nordic countries, UK, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey and South Korea.
Download or read book Resource Allocation in the Public Sector written by Colin Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the public sector at the moment resources are scarce - or at the very least finite and limited - how they are allocated is therefore of crucial importance. This book analyses this process and examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic, including the role of markets and quasi-markets, in the delivery of public services. Topics discussed include: * whether people should be denied the public services they need because public bodies are short of money * what balance we should strike between markets and public organisations to provide public services * whether the use of markets has gone too far and whether we need to return to a public service ethic
Download or read book Environmental Goods and Services The Benefits of Further Global Trade Liberalisation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-24 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the extent to which there are trade impediments to the transfer and adoption of environmental goods and services and how can these be addressed by global trade negotiations.
