To bid or not to bid: That is the question: Public procurement, project complexity and corruption

Baldi, Simona; Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio; Piccardo, Chiara

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2016.04.002

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“…They use, as the main explanatory variable, an institutional category of public procurer and, as the control variables, they use the estimated value of the public contract, weighted public works composition index, the expected duration of the contract, the type of the public contract, the use of the subcontractor, the completion of the project by the given firm, the existence of a legal dispute, the relationship between the firm and the contracting authority, the source of financing, and social variables. (Baldi, Bottasso, and Conti, 2016) focus on the analysis of the form of the tender, the resulting prices, and time delays. As the research subject, they considered public contracts of selected Italian municipalities.…”

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Factors Affecting the Length of Procedure in Public Procurement: The Case of the Czech Republic

Plaček¹,

Schmidt²,

Ochrana³

et al. 2019

Prague Economic Papers

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The article deals with the issue of the length of procedure in public procurement. Our analysis focuses on construction contracts in 2010-2015. We apply hierarchical linear regressions to these data to identify factors that affect the length of procedure. According to our results, the duration of a public contract does not affect the standard contract price. The nature of the contracting authority, the expected value, the openness of the procurement procedure, and the method of evaluation have a statistically significant impact on the length of the contract. As for other factors regarding the length of awarding time, the use of the subcontractor, the division of a contract into parts, and a review by the Office for the Protection of Competition due extend the time required. By contrast, contracting time can be reduced by the use of outsourcing. In the end of the article, we have put forward recommendations for economic policy and further research.

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Factors Affecting the Length of Procedure in Public Procurement: The Case of the Czech Republic

Plaček¹,

Schmidt²,

Ochrana³

et al. 2019

Prague Economic Papers

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“…See alsoBaldi et al (2016);Kenny and Crisman (2016),and Coviello and Mariniello (2014) 7 The Stam and van de Ven (2019) conceptualization of the entrepreneurial ecosystem stresses (potential) market demand as a factor but does not explicitly consider the role of government as a source of demand8 Flynn and Davies (2017) use a survey of 3000 firms that bid for contracts with Irish procuring entities and find that procedural capability is associated with frequency of tendering and the typical value of contract sought. In contrast, relational capability was not found to be a determining factor.…”

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Procurement policy and SME participation in public purchasing

Hoekman

Taş

2020

Small Bus Econ

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This study investigates the relationship between regulatory policies governing public procurement and participation by small and medium enterprises (SMEs), using a large dataset on European procurement. We find that better quality procurement regulation is associated with greater SME participation and higher probability that SMEs win contracts. Dividing contracts into smaller lots, a key feature of 2014 EU procurement regulation reform, bolsters participation by SMEs but only increases the probability of SMEs winning contracts for small value lots (€25,000 or less). Our results suggest governments seeking to enhance participation by SMEs in public procurement without explicitly favoring SMEs can do so by improving the overall quality of procurement processes.

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“…The issue of repeated contracts is addressed in the part of the scientific literature on public procurement that seeks to analyze bidding behavior (Jofre-Bonet & Pesendorfer, 2000) and bid rigging (Ishii, 2009), to define an optimal public procurement process with respect to former experiences with suppliers (Albano, Cesi, & Iozzi, 2017; Cesi & Albano, 2008), and to solve the complexity problem by auction or negotiation (Baldi, Botasso, Conti, & Picardo, 2016).…”

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Another One Bites the Dust: Recurrent Procurement Contracts in the Czech Republic

Plaček¹,

Soukopová

Vaceková

et al. 2019

Public Works Management & Policy

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This article deals with the phenomenon of repeated contracts, specifically the effect of trust in public contracts. Our main objective is to identify the factors that influence the concluding of repeated contracts and to verify whether repeated contracts lead to increases in prices. We use a complex dataset of public procurement of municipalities in the Czech Republic for the period of 2014-2017, which covers more than 4,000 public contracts. This range of data allows a larger number of variables to be applied, including specific independent variables concerning municipalities, such as the size of the municipality. The data allow us to study this subject by means of both a general model tested on all public contracts and a partial model applied to public works. The presented results of quantitative econometric models from the data obtained from the awards of public contracts in the municipalities of the Czech Republic show that the fact of whether it was a repeated contract or a contract performed by a new (unknown to a contracting authority) supplier affected the chance of winning a contract.

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To bid or not to bid: That is the question: Public procurement, project complexity and corruption

Cited by 70 publications

References 32 publications

Factors Affecting the Length of Procedure in Public Procurement: The Case of the Czech Republic

Factors Affecting the Length of Procedure in Public Procurement: The Case of the Czech Republic

Procurement policy and SME participation in public purchasing

Another One Bites the Dust: Recurrent Procurement Contracts in the Czech Republic

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