Essays on Procurement

The procurement arrangements employed by Regional Council of Lombardy (RCL) were based primarily on political (no private involvement), economic (drive cost down) and enabling the Contracting Authority to limit its total capital expenditure whilst drawing on private capital investment. Rosli et al., (2006) “states that…

“Aggressive risk transfer and the search for the lowest possible price at the expense of value typifies public and private sector procurement” (Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, 2018) According to the oxford dictionary the term procure is ‘an acquisition process used to secure services,…

Supply Chain is comprised of many different functions. These functions and components include logistics, fulfillment, strategic sources, and so many others. One of my favorite functions of supply chain that I want to discuss is procurement. Procurement is the way toward finding and consenting to…

One of the basic elements of determining projects success is the proper evaluation and selection of procurement methods. Therefore, the selection of a procurement system is a very important task, as employing an inappropriate procurement system may lead to project failure (Chua et al., 1999),…

A theoretical expository methodology is utilised by the paper and the literature on the practices of public procurement in South Africa is inspected. Public procurement is progressively perceived as an occupation in which an essential role is played in the effective administration of public resources….