Competitive Tendering and Contracting in the Public Sector: A Survey

Domberger, Simon; Rimmer, Stephen

doi:10.1080/758536232

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“…Early academic analyses of the effect of privatization on costs usually found a positive relation between privatization and cost savings. Similar results were stressed in reviews such as Domberger and Rimmer (1994) and Domberger and Jensen (1997).…”

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confidence: 71%

Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis

2008

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Privatization of local public services has been implemented worldwide in the last decades. Why local governments privatize has been the subject of much discussion, and many empirical works have been devoted to analyzing the factors that explain local privatization.Such works have found a great diversity of motivations, and the variation among reported empirical results is large. To investigate this diversity we undertake a meta-regression analysis of the factors explaining the decision to privatize local services. Overall, our results indicate that significant relationships are very dependent upon the characteristics of the studies. Indeed, fiscal stress and political considerations have been found to contribute to local privatization specially in the studies of US cases published in the eighties that consider a broad range of services.Studies that focus on one service capture more accurately the influence of scale economies on privatization. Finally, governments of small towns are more affected by fiscal stress, political considerations and economic efficiency, while ideology seems to play a major role for large cities.

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Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis

2008

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“…Evidence of the effect on service quality has been much more limited. Those studies that do exist have typically found mixed results (Domberger and Rimmer, 1994;and Boyne, 1998).…”

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“…Similar initiatives have been introduced elsewhere (Domberger and Rimmer, 1994). Sturgess et al (2007a and2007b) provide a recent comprehensive survey.…”

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Competition, Quality and Contract Compliance: Evidence from Compulsory Competitive Tendering in Local Government in Great Britain, 1987–2000*

Milne¹,

Roy²,

Angeles³

2012

Fiscal Studies

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The introduction of competition has frequently been found to cause costs to fall. There has, however, been a question whether this was partly achieved at the cost of quality. Auction theory predicts prices would fall the greater the competition to provide the service. There has been some debate, however, whether the smaller budgets would make contract compliance more difficult. Evidence is found in support of this hypothesis. We also find some evidence that the better recorded performance of the in-house DSOs during this period was due to the information advantage they had from being incumbents.JEL classification: H57, L14, L15, L32 and L33.

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“…As a rule, costs savings have been found and their magnitude is important (see the reviews by Domberger and Rimmer 1994, Boyne 1998, and Andrews 2011.…”

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Competitive provision of public services: cost savings over successive rounds of tendering

Angeles

Milne

2015

Applied Economics Letters

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We study the evolution of the cost of public service provision when subjected to a competitive tendering process. We add to the existing literature by analyzing cost savings over successive rounds of tendering. Previous results in the literature show that initial cost savings tend to disappear over time with the age of the contract. Our findings suggest that each additional round of tendering will be followed by a renewal of cost savings. Thus, keeping competitive pressure via periodic tendering appears to address the problem.

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Competitive Tendering and Contracting in the Public Sector: A Survey

Cited by 138 publications

References 20 publications

Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis

Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis

Competition, Quality and Contract Compliance: Evidence from Compulsory Competitive Tendering in Local Government in Great Britain, 1987–2000*

Competitive provision of public services: cost savings over successive rounds of tendering

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