Understanding and Tracing Accountability in the Public Procurement Process

Diggs, Schnequa N.; Roman, Alexandru V.

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“…There is little in the literature that directly addresses this issue. However, Diggs' and Roman's study [64] highlights the difficulties of maintaining accountability in these types of projects. This is unsurprising, as governance through a single point of control involves facing a problem that has long been recognised in organisation theory, the difficulty of enforcing centrally made decisions [65,66] and the negative consequences for flexibility in doing so [67,68].…”

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Evaluation of the Promotion of Through-Life Management in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure

2016

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Abstract:One justification of public private partnerships (PPP) is the alleged benefit they offer in terms of through-life management (TLM). Aiming at an evaluation of this claim, the dominant reasoning connecting PPPs and TLM is first defined: In creating a single point of responsibility and a long temporal involvement, the PPP model provides an effective incentive to implement TLM. This reasoning is first evaluated through prior large scale studies and through two case studies undertaken by the authors. No substantial evidence of TLM benefits is found. To identify the causes for this gap between intention and achievement, a critical review of the PPP literature supported by insights from management and organization theory is undertaken. Four problems in the reasoning are found to explain the gap: fragmentation is factually prevailing; not all parties in PPPs intend to have a long term commitment to the project; there may be competing incentives for some parties; and the effort to achieve the change and learning necessary for TLM may be missing. It is concluded that for the TLM benefits to be achieved, the PPP model has to be redesigned to secure incentivisation towards TLM and to incorporate TLM mechanisms at the level of the production system.

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“…Clients may also lack commitment to what effectively becomes a commercial enterprise [13]. Diggs and Roman [64] conclude that anything other than temporary PPP arrangements are only possible "under rigid constraints". Sometimes the reasons for discontinuities are perverse in the PPP context.…”

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Evaluation of the Promotion of Through-Life Management in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure

2016

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“…Second, it raises the question of whether there should be explicit performance criteria below which charter schools should be closed-an approach that is being pursued in a handful of U.S. states (NACSA, 2013)-or else receive support for improvement. To the extent that such technical assistance is supportive, it could have the effect of improving relationships, increasing charter school buy-in to evaluation systems, and enhancing bureaucratic accountability (Diggs & Roman, 2012;Reeves, 2008).…”

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“…In part, this is because accountability-contrary to how it is commonly presented by PPP advocates-is a concept that is difficult to operationalize in practice, not least because there are multiple ways to interpret and to define it. Diggs and Roman (2012), for example, interviewed 41 public procurement specialists, whose job it is to hold private providers accountable, and found the way accountability is understood depends on one's experience, organizational position, and career aspirations. Participants in their study noted that accountability can mean meeting legal requirements but it can also be interpreted as meeting informal or unofficial expectations.…”

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Public-private partnerships, accountability, and competition: Theory versus reality in the charter schools of Bogotá, Colombia

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2017

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While charter schools are among the most prevalent public-private partnerships in the education sector, they are frequently only assessed by measuring outputs such as enrollment and test scores. In contrast, this article assesses the logic model behind charter schools, specifically the mechanisms of accountability and competition, through a study of the Concession Schools in Bogotá, Colombia, using a realist evaluation methodology. Despite the program's success in increasing access in marginalized areas, findings indicate that accountability and competition were hindered in practice-because of insufficient choice for parents and other unique organizational and Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 25 No. 10 2 political factors. For example, particular issues emerged that influenced the availability of viable charter operators to open and manage schools while political orientations, political shifts, and evaluation design issues affected the charter authorizer's ability to monitor, assess, and hold charters accountable. Successfully operationalizing public-private partnerships requires that the mechanisms underlying each link in the policy theory are carefully designed and supported, that they directly connect, and that the functioning of one does not adversely impact the others-a difficult task given the dynamic and sensitive nature of such mechanisms and the imperfect world of educational reform. The article concludes by reflecting on a number of issues, including charter school exit from the market, the need for accountability of charter authorizers themselves, the increasing political clout of charter management organizations and their allies, and the ways that these actors circumvent or avoid public accountability. Keywords: charter schools; Colombia; public-private partnerships; accountability; competition; charter authorizers Asociaciones público-privadas, rendición de cuentas y competencia: Teoría versus realidad en las escuelas chárter de Bogotá, Colombia Resumen: Si bien las escuelas chárter se encuentran entre las asociaciones público-privadas más relevantes en el sector educativo, con frecuencia sólo son evaluadas por sus indicadores de cobertura/matrícula y por los resultados de las pruebas. Tomando distancia de esta tendencia, este artículo evalúa los componentes del modelo que hay detrás de las escuelas chárter y, específicamente, se enfoca en los mecanismos de rendición de cuentas y competencia, en un estudio de caso sobre las Escuelas por Concesión en Bogotá, Colombia, utilizando una metodología de evaluación realista. A pesar del éxito del programa al permitir el aumento en el acceso a la escuela en áreas marginadas, los hallazgos indican que la rendición de cuentas y la competencia se vieron restringidas en la práctica debido a la escasa posibilidad que tienen los padres para elegir y a otros factores particulares de índole política y organizativa. Por ejemplo, surgieron problemas específicos que influyeron en la disponibilidad de agentes idóneos que pudieran asumir la apertura y ad...

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“…In the end, 95 studies were selected, all of which were conducted in the period of2002Aldrete, Bujanda, & Valdez, 2012;Anastasopoulos et al, 2011;Asenova, Beck, Akintoye, Hardcastle, & Chinyio, 2002;Bajari, Houghton, & Tadelis, 2006;Baker, 2012;Bernardino, Hřebíček, & Marques, 2010;Bidne et al, 2012;Bing et al, 2005;Blanc-Brude, Goldsmith, & Välilä, 2006, 2007Blanc-Brude & Makovsek, 2013;Bonnafous, 2010;Bunch, 2012;Button & Chen, 2014;Button & Daito, 2014;Buxbaum & Ortiz, 2009;Carbonara, Costantino, & Pellegrino, 2014; Carbonara, Costantiono, & Roberta, 2014;Carpintero & Gomez-Ibañ ez, 2011;Caselli, Gatti, & Marciante, 2009;Chan, Yeung, Yu, Wang, & Ke, 2010;Chasey et al, 2012;Checherita, 2009;Chen & Hubbard, 2012;Cheung & Chan, 2010Cheung, Chan, & Kajewski, 2009;Chiu, 2006;Chou, Ping Tserng, Lin, & Yeh, 2012;Chung et al, 2010;Clifton & Duffield, 2006;Cruz & Marques, 2011Daito, Chen, Gifford, Porter, & Gudgel, 2013;De Brux, 2010De Jong, Mu, Stead, Ma, & Xi, 2010;Demirag et al, 2011;Dewatripont & Legros, 2005;Diggs & Roman, 2012;…”

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Data Review of Transportation Infrastructure Public–Private Partnership: A Meta-Analysis

2015

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The limited understanding of public-private partnerships (P3s) for transportation infrastructure finance has been generally attributed to a lack of data. The more fundamental question of how P3 data are utilized in the literature is more relevant and critical, but remains unclear. This study investigates this question by examining the linkages between research objectives and data characteristics through a meta-analysis of infrastructure P3 studies using multinomial regressions. It analyzes 95 empirical studies that adopt actual data, selected from a P3 research database that includes over 345 studies and are classified into five categories including performance, contract, risk, value for money, and institutional factors. Results show that the case studies are less frequently utilized to understand P3s' institutional issues compared to those that focus on P3s' performance or VFM. Survey data are more frequently used to study P3 contracts rather than issues related to P3 project risk. We highlight the need for policy-makers to require continuing disclosure of P3 performance for validating the effectiveness of the procurement model and to improve the practice.

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Understanding and Tracing Accountability in the Public Procurement Process

Cited by 39 publications

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Evaluation of the Promotion of Through-Life Management in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure

Evaluation of the Promotion of Through-Life Management in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure

Public-private partnerships, accountability, and competition: Theory versus reality in the charter schools of Bogotá, Colombia

Data Review of Transportation Infrastructure Public–Private Partnership: A Meta-Analysis

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