Tag: Procurement

January 26, 2024

A Practical Guide to Public Procurement

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Free Download Abby Semple, "A Practical Guide to Public Procurement"
English | ISBN: 0198716117 | 2015 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1194 KB + 19 MB
How can public contracts be used effectively to achieve the broader aims of government? Increasingly, emphasis is placed on strategic aspects of public procurement such as value for money, competition, environmental sustainability and social value. The 2014 EU procurement directives offer a new framework in which to pursue these objectives, significantly expanding upon the possibilities under earlier directives. They also represent an evolution in the scope of coverage of the rules, with concessions and certain forms of public-public cooperation being explicitly regulated for the first time, and social and other specific services now subject to a lighter regime.

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January 4, 2024

Procurement Analytics

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Free Download Procurement Analytics: Data-Driven Decision-Making in Procurement and Supply Management
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031432800 | 424 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 14 MB
This unique textbook explicitly addresses the intersection of advanced analytics and procurement. It is motivated by one core question: How can firms generate (economic) value from procurement data? It demonstrates that procurement is one of the major functions within a firm where data analytics, artificial intelligence, and operations research can successfully be leveraged to reduce cost and risk and to achieve resilience and sustainability goals.

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January 1, 2024

Canada’s Defence Procurement Woes

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Free Download Canada’s Defence Procurement Woes by Jeffrey F. Collins
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 (2024 Edition) | 163 Pages | ISBN : 3031463625 | 3.1 MB
This book challenges the perceived underlying causes and culprits of the ongoing challenges in Canadian defence procurement, arguing that although headlines often put the blame on the political leadership, the defence procurement bureaucracy, ongoing pressures in the defence industry and continuous demands placed on Canada though its alliances also carry a large part of the responsibility. Focusing on four main case studies: the Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Plane, the Joint Support Ships, the Medium Support Vehicle System and the Halifax Class Modernization, the author offers a comparative analysis of how these ongoing procurement efforts were dealt with by different administrations, from Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin to Stephen Harper.

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