Innovative and novel, this book extends its coverage of the topic well beyond the conventional themes of project solicitation and proposal evaluation. Using extensive experience gathered over five years of teaching postgraduate courses, Walker and Rowlinson build on Procurement Systems: A Guide to Best Practice in Construction to present a comprehensive and coherent volume that is invaluable to the wider project management community. Cross-disciplinary in approach, coverage includes general historical issues and practical discussions of different types of projects and their procurement needs. It provides and discusses cutting-edge research and thought leadership on issues such as: stakeholder management ethics and corporate governance issues business strategy implications on procurement e-business innovation and organizational learning cultural dimensions human resource development. Helping readers to design project procurement implementation paths that deliver sustainable value, this indispensable volume is key reading for students, lecturers and professionals working in or studying project management.
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The amount of money that the Department of Defense (DOD) spends each year contracting for goods and services dwarfs the amounts spent by other federal agencies.
Some clients' requirements willin themselves be constraints upon the way the projectandespecially the selectionofthemost appropriate procurement system canbecarried out.Aswe have seen, theinternal environment ofanycategory of client ...
This book focuses on the development of communication skills in the context of non-traditional procurement and construction projects.
The initial push to implement e-procurement systems in OECD member countries over the past 15 to 20 years was directed towards building centralised systems for publishing public procurement information. As a result, the focus for the ...
Empowering those on all sides of the issue, this volume dispenses advice valuable to government officials and contractors, as well as providing a comprehensive text for public administration students.
As governments search for the best ways to restyle their services, the E-Government field continues to attract interest from public administrators, politicians, academics, and citizens.
Half the book consists of a bibliography of material first published in Building management abstracts and Construction information digest from 1970 onwards.
This book examines corruption in public procurement in three Member States of the EU, reviewing their different approaches to combating corruption, and the extent to which the transparency principle is applied in their procurement systems.
166 PART IV - PROCUREMENT SYSTEMS 169 11. DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PROCUREMENT SYSTEMS ............... 171 1 . Definition of Categorisation of Procurement Systems ......... 171 2 . Procurement System Profile .