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Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results
Policy and strategy documents, Articles and literature
This UNDP handbook focuses on the importance of integrating results-based management at the design stage and includes a section on planning. Working consciously towards results requires systematic planning, monitoring and evaluation. The handbook is also intended to help support national capacities in these areas in close collaboration with national counterparts and institutions.
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Using a Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Tool in Public Purchasing
Articles and literature
Purchasing professionals have recently sought methods to take on a more strategic in their organization. One strategic tool showing success is the Balanced Scorecard. This tool can assist purchasing in making a valuable contribution to the organization and aligning the purchasing and organizational strategies. This paper reviews the elements of a Balanced Scorecard and investigates how to adapt it to public purchasing. Spec...
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Software Costing Analysis Model for Evaluating Value for Money
Articles and literature
Key procurement challenges include the definition of value and the identification of Value for Money principles. In the case of software development, the failure of contemporary systems of costing and project management to create reliable, replicable cost estimation that links to the requirements of project planners and managers represents a significant deficiency in procurement theory and practice. This paper explores the ...
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Public Sector Ethics and Contract Compliance Audits
Articles and literature
Performing audits of contracts are important tools to ensure that the purpose for the agreement or the performance of a contract actually occurs. Audits will validate and measure processes that are in place, identify those that require further enhancement, and isolate weaknesses that may lead to fraud, collusion, and conflicts of interest. Contract compliance monitoring is as necessary an element to maintain an open and fai...
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Procurement Issues in Performance-Based Contracts - the World Bank Experience
Articles and literature
This paper focuses on the World Bank’s emerging experience with a promising application of performance-based contracts: Output-Based Aid (OBA) subsidies. OBA is the provision of subsidies for the delivery of and access to social or infrastructure services. Under OBA, subsidy payments are tied to measurable performing outputs, leaving the specific methods of achieving these outputs to the service provider’s discretion. While...
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Performance-Based Procurement - The Key to Effective Basic Services Provision in Developing Countries
Articles and literature
This paper presents how Performance-Based Procurement (PBP) schemes may contribute to ensure better basic public services in infrastructure and social sectors in Bank client countries; describes how the Bank procurement policies, methods, and tools have enabled its borrowers to pursue PBP approaches; and looks forward into other ways to continue assisting client countries interested in obtaining the benefits of applying the...
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Manipulating Soft Performance Indicators in Public Procurement
Articles and literature
Recent empirical evidence shows that in several e-procurement platforms vendors’ attempt to manipulate past performance indicators to increase future business. Vendors can easily manipulate such indicators when these are based on soft information. In public procurement manipulations may affect key “Soft Performance Indicators” (SPI) that public administrations frequently use for incentive and selection purpose, such as cust...
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Towards a Model for Measuring the Performance of e-Procurement Initiatives in the Australian Public Sector: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
Asia & the Pacific, Australia
Articles and literature
This research proposes a model for measuring the performance of e-Procurement initiatives in the Australian public sector.
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Benchmarking Municipal Public Procurement Activities in Finland
Europe & the CIS, Finland
Articles and literature
This research is based on a larger research project, called Lighthouse-project. The research problem of this paper is to find out: (1) whether there were differences in procurement between the municipal public organisations in Finland; (2) how the Finnish municipal public entities differ from benchmarking information in other countries; and (3) the best practices in different parts of municipal public procurement. Results o...
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Benchmarking European Public Procurement Practices: Purchasing of “Fix-Line Telephone Services” and “Paper for Printers”
Europe & the CIS, European Union
Articles and literature
The challenges of exploring how to achieve significant goals through public procurement and to compare different practices led the EU Lab network to work in 2005 on how European central purchasing bodies procure the same product category through a competitive process. As far as we know, this is the first attempt of comparing procurement practices and performances when purchasing the same good. In this article, we explain th...
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Balancing Socioeconomic and Public Procurement Reform Goals - Effective Metrics for Measuring
North America, United States of America
Articles and literature
A defining characteristic of public procurement is the requirement for purchasing professionals to comply with applicable socioeconomic laws and regulations that do not apply to the private sector. While these socioeconomic procurement programs for public agencies require additional considerations in the procurement process, they also allow agencies to benefit from the contributions that small businesses bring to an organiz...
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