IPPC6: Thursday 14th – Saturday 16th August 2014
Dublin, Ireland

Public Procurement remains a key focus for policy makers in this time of global downturn and austerity. As such both academics and practitioners have a desire to share their research and practice in and open and transparent environment. In Dublin, August 2014, the Sixth International Public Procurement Conference (IPPC6) will take place. The IPPC is the largest international public procurement conference globally dedicated to academic discussion and practitioner engagement. Over the last 10 years having built its profile in attracting partcipants from over 60 countries, it is hoped that the conference in Dublin will exceed this. . more

Best Paper Awards:
Since its inception, IPPC has a Best Paper Awards Program, sponsored by PrAcademics Press. Best papers were peer reviewed by the Scientific Committee and then selected by a Best Paper Committee. Following are three best papers. more

Preface

            List of Contributors

1. Advancing Public Procurement: Practices, Innovation and Knowledge-Sharing
   Khi V. Thai

Part I. Partnerships and Collaborative Procurement

2. Organising For Collaborative Procurement: An Initial Conceptual Framework
   Elmer Bakker, Helen Walker and Christine Harland

3. Using Agency Theory to Model Cooperative Public Purchasing 
   Clifford McCue and Eric Prier

4. Cooperation for Tenders: Is It a Threat to Competition?
   Flóra Felsö, Barbara Baarsma and José Mulder

5. One More Time… How to Measure Alliance Success in Conditions of Public-Private Partnering
   Sandy Chong and Guy Callender

6. Market-Based Government: Lessons Learned from Five Cases
   William Lucyshyn

Part 2. Regulations and Ethics

7. Procurement Ethics and Innovation in UK Healthcare
   Wendy Phillips, Nigel Caldwell, Thomas Johnsen and Michael Lewis

8. Governmental Procurement: FAR from a Competitive Process
   Dean E. Brunk

9. Regulation and Deregulation in Public Procurement Law Reform in the United States
   Joshua I. Schwartz

10. Law and Economics Analysis of the Estonian Public Procurement Act
    Ringa Raudla

Part III. Public Procurement as a Policy Tool

11. Environmental Concerns in Swedish Local Government Procurement
    Frederik Waara and Lina Carlsson

12. Green Award Criteria in the Most EconomicallyAdvantageous Tender in Public Purchasing
    Katriina Parikka-Alhola, Ari Nissinen and Ari Ekroos

13. Public Procurement and Social Policy in Northern Ireland: The Unemployment Pilot Project
    Andrew Erridge and Sean Hennigan

14. Unintended Consequences: Procurement Policy and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal
    Barbara Ann C. Allen

15. The Use of the Purchasing Power of the State to Promote the Development of Small Businesses – The Brazilian Experience
    Rafael S. Arantes, Loreni F. Foresti and Vinício Rossetto

Part IV. Other Issues

16. Public Procurement Reform in Developing Countries: The Uganda Experience
    Nigel Shipman and Edgar Agaba

17. Beyond Compliance: The Reform of Public Procurement Laws in Central and Eastern Europe in the Context of the Enlargement Process of the European Union
    Martin Trybus

18. Procurement’s Value – What Are We Really Measuring?
    Andrew Kidd

19. A Principal-Agent Analysis of Accountability in Public Procurement
    Ohad Soudry

20. Early Public Procurement Involvement in Emerging Technologies? The Case of Tissue Engineering
    Wendy Phillips, Nigel Caldwell and Thomas Johnsen 

21. Public Purchasing Future: Buying from Multiple Suppliers
    Merijn M. Linthorst and Jan Telgen

22. Benchmarking European Public Procurement Practices: Purchasing of "Fix-Line Telephone Services" and "Paper for Printers" 
    Laura Carpineti, Gustavo Piga, and Matteo Zanza