Public Procurement Transaction Costs: A Country-Level Assessment Based on Microdata

Balaeva, Olga; Yakovlev, Andrei; Rodionova, Yuliya; Esaulov, Daniil

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“…Th e comprehensive foreign research of the correlation between transaction costs and opportunistic behaviour was provided, e.g., by Hill (1990). Th e study on incentives and transaction costs in public procurement based on microdata from Russia (Balaeva et al 2018) reported that the average overall costs of public procurements in Russia came in at about 1 % of the total value of concluded contracts, but with a quite diff erent amount (6.6 to 8.1 %) for small purchases.…”

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Transaction Costs, Outsourcing, and the Public Procurement Review Process in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Šumpíková

Ďurčeková

2019

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Public procurement is a crucial activity undertaken by the public sector. However, public procurement entails a wide range of transaction costs. While many papers focus on the ex-ante transaction costs, it is equally important to evaluate the types of ex-post transaction costs. Th e disputes stemming from confl icts between procuring authorities and proposers oft en bring additional costs to both parties. One of the ways to ensure that the procuring authority wins the dispute is using the services of an external law fi rm to represent the procuring authority in the review process. Th e aim of the paper is to examine the extent of the use of external law services in the public-procurement review process by procuring authorities and proposers in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic. Th e focus is also on the impact the use of external law fi rms in the review process may have on the length of the review process and the outcome of the dispute. Our results suggest that while the use of the external law fi rm may lead to a higher success rate of the review process on the side of a procuring authority, the same does not apply to proposers. Th ere were no conclusive fi ndings regarding the impact of the outsourcing on the length of the review process.

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Transaction Costs, Outsourcing, and the Public Procurement Review Process in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Šumpíková

Ďurčeková

2019

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Researching the public procurement system: An analysis of unscrupulous suppliers

Когденко

2020

EATP

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Subject. The article addresses issues of prequalification in the public procurement system. Objectives. The study analyzes the registry of unscrupulous suppliers and substantiates proposals for assessing the reputation of suppliers in the public procurement system for the purpose of prequalification. Methods. The study employs general scientific principles and research methods, like abstraction, generalization of approaches of domestic and foreign authors on issues of prequalification and reputation assessment. Results. The paper presents a methodology for analyzing a set of suppliers, which includes two stages. At the first stage, it examines a set of suppliers by industry affiliation, form of ownership, legal status, affiliation of participants, and degree of competition. At the second stage, it assesses the reputation of suppliers in the public procurement system by four components: corporate, financial, market, and social. The methodology was tested on unscrupulous suppliers data registry, which was formed on the basis of SPARK-Interfax information resource. Calculations show that the sampled population of unscrupulous suppliers includes three groups according to industry affiliation, i.e. trade, construction, and all other industries. In the legal status category, limited liability companies prevail. In the form of ownership category, the dominant group of unscrupulous suppliers is private business. The population is characterized by a low degree of concentration. Conclusions. Unscrupulous suppliers have negative reputation characteristics by which it is possible to identify them at the prequalification stage and debar from bidding.

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Researching the public procurement system: An analysis of winning organizations

Когденко

Sanzharov

2020

EATP

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Subject. The article deals with the analysis of suppliers in the public procurement system based on reasonable prequalification parameters. Objectives. The aim is to test the hypothesis about strong reputation characteristics of the winners in the public procurement system and develop a methodology for assessing the reputation of suppliers for prequalification purposes. Methods. We employ general scientific principles and methods of research, like abstraction, generalization of approaches used by domestic and foreign authors for prequalification and assessment of reputation of public procurement participants. Results. To test the hypothesis, we calculated four groups of indicators on corporate, financial, market, and social components of reputation. The methodology was tested on the data obtained from SPARK-Interfax and SPARK-Marketing information resources. Conclusions. The study revealed that not all reputational characteristics of public procurement winners can be regarded as high level. In terms of the corporate component, it is the low level of share capital, indicating the mistrust on the part of owners and their reluctance to invest in the business, and the low percentage of non-current assets. In terms of the market component, it is a low sales growth rate, as well as low return on sales. As to the financial component, it is a low capitalization of winners, low share of long-term debt capital and low credit limit. With respect to the social component, it is a below-average tax burden.

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Public Procurement Transaction Costs: A Country-Level Assessment Based on Microdata

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Transaction Costs, Outsourcing, and the Public Procurement Review Process in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Transaction Costs, Outsourcing, and the Public Procurement Review Process in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Researching the public procurement system: An analysis of unscrupulous suppliers

Researching the public procurement system: An analysis of winning organizations

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