Journal of Public Procurement: Volume 4 Issue 1

Drivers of compensation of heads of procurement units, supervisors, and materials managers in the public sector

Mohamad G. Alkadry

This article examines the determinants of salaries of heads of public procurement units. Specifically, it investigates the effect of gender, budget size, supervisory…

Assessing outsourcing potential in a state dot

Chester G. Wilmot, Donald R. Deis, Rong Xu

The purpose of this project was to develop a systematic, objective procedure to evaluate the potential to outsource functions and activities currently performed by the Louisiana…

A simulation approach to in-house versus contracted out cost comparisons

Donald R. Deis, Helmut Schneider, Chester G. Wilmot, Charles H. Coates

The purpose of this project was to compare the cost of transportation engineering design services provided by private contractors versus services provided by state transportation…

Is contracting out in new york city tinkering or reinventing government?

Ronald W. Blendermann, Rita Ormsby, John Sharp, Edward A. Zimmerman

This article examines whether contracting out of government services in New York City has been tinkering or reinventing government, with a detailed examination of the layers of…

Government/business relationships: insights into contract implementation

Sijun Wang, Michele D. Bunn

Public procurement activities have long been treated as a minor subset of industrial or business-to-business buying. Consequently, the literature reports sparse research on the…