Journal of Public Procurement: Volume 22 Issue 2

Media reporting on public procurement: an analysis of UK press coverage, 1985–2018

Anthony Flynn, Irina Harris

The media is an important actor in public procurement, but research on its role is limited. This paper aims to investigate how the media has engaged with public procurement, using…

SME’s disinclination towards subcontracting in the public sector markets: an attributional perspective

Temidayo Akenroye, Jonathan D. Owens, Adekunle Sabitu Oyegoke, Jamal Elbaz, H.M. Belal, Fedwa Jebli

This study aims to examine the causes of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) disinclination towards subcontracting in public sector markets. Previous studies have revealed…

Pursuing ways to improve the Brazilian procurement system: a comparison between the framework agreements in the United Kingdom and the Brazilian price registration system

Waldemiro Francisco Sorte Junior

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a literature review on framework agreements, an instrument for demand aggregation adopted in the UK, to recommend improvements to the price…

A case study on bid rigging in centralized procurement of audit consulting services in Italy

Gian Luigi Albano, Maria Grazia Santocchia

The aim of this case study is to review the in-depth (and successful) investigation carried out in 2016 by the Italian Competition Authority [Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e…

Choosing the most economically advantageous tender using a multi-criteria decision analysis approach

Juha-Matti Lehtonen, Kai Virtanen

The purpose of this paper is to propose and test a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach based on an additive value function (AVF) to select the most economically…

Exploring the quantification and measurement of public procurement performance expectations gap in community roadworks in Uganda: evidence from comprehensive survey

Charles Kalinzi, Joseph Mpeera Ntayi, Levi Bategeka Kabagambe, Moses Muhwezi, John Kigozi Munene

This paper aims to quantify, for the first time, the performance expectations gap in community roadworks projects by proposing a performance expectations gap index (PEGI) that can…