The Next Age of Public Procurement Reforms in Tanzania: Looking for the Best Value for Money

Summary A public procurement should be an effective tool through which public authorities shall spend public finances sparingly. With modernisation of this area of law in 2014, a new concept of bids evaluation came forward – a value for money. Now it is more important than any time before to ensure fair tenders to be submitted during the procurement. It is a well-known fact, that only a true competition between the bidders decreases the prices and raises the quality of their bids. But how contracting authorities deal with these goals while procuring without competition? This article analyses limited tendering with focus on extreme urgency. Authors try to give an answer to the question, which attribute of this procedure prevails – its flexible use in extraordinary situations or its interfering effect to value for money achievement.which makes Slovakia open to severe criticism from international human rights bodies.

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Promoting a Competitive Local Business Community in Ghana: The Role of the Legal Framework for Public Procurement

Journal of African Law ◽

10.1017/s0021855314000084 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 58 (2) ◽

pp. 350-375

Author(s):

Dominic N Dagbanja

Keyword(s):

Public Procurement ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Primary Objective ◽

Business Community ◽

Single Source ◽

Value For Money ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Effective Implementation ◽

Best Value

AbstractGhana's Public Procurement Act 2003 was enacted to bring about the judicious, economic and efficient use of state resources, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination in procurement. The primary objective of the act is best value for money. This article assesses how, beyond being used to achieve its primary objective, the law should be applied to propel the capacity and competitiveness of local businesses in Ghana. It argues that effective implementation of the act can indirectly promote competition and industrial competiveness in Ghana. Therefore, procurement entities must follow the requirements for procurement, both to achieve best value for money and to build and improve upon the capacity of domestic industries. Competition, transparency and restrictions on the application of single-source procurement and restricted tendering can promote and encourage the participation of Ghanaian firms in procurement. This can enhance their capacity and competitiveness in both procurement and other economic activities in Ghana.

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Engaging the economic facts and valuations underlying value for money in public procurement

Public Money & Management ◽

10.1080/09540962.2018.1535049 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 216-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anni Lindholm ◽

Tuomas Korhonen ◽

Teemu Laine ◽

Petri Suomala

Keyword(s):

Public Procurement ◽

Value For Money

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CHALLENGES FACING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT INFORMATION IN SOME AFRICAN COUNTRIES NAMELY

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research ◽

10.31686/ijier.vol2.iss7.208 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (7) ◽

pp. 54-60

Author(s):

SABBATH M. UROMI

Keyword(s):

Information Management ◽

Management Practices ◽

Public Procurement ◽

Essential Elements ◽

Access To Information ◽

Value For Money ◽

African Countries ◽

Information Law ◽

Procurement Reform ◽

Transparency And Accountability

This article seeks to find out challenges facing the procurement laws in Africa. The article examines the meaning and purpose of public procurement, drawing parallels between its essential elements, and stages with the need and requirement to enhance transparency and accountability to attain its objectives. It also seeks to provide analysis of traditional procurement reform objectives and identifies the importance of transparency and accountability as well as value for money in procurement to their achievement of joint goals. The article then examines broadly the access to information provisions of the procurement laws in a number of African countries namely -South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Tanzania and concludes that these laws contribute to improving access to information across Africa, particularly where an access to information law is absent, but are not robust enough to sufficiently provide comprehensive access to information. It examines the level of constraint posed by administrative charges for access to information. Also the article concludes based on the Tanzanian experience that limited access to information, laws already exist may be more as a result of; limited capacities in both the citizens sector and public sector to capture and maintain information in a retrievable format; deliberate delays by public officers to frustrate applications for access; poor information management practices and half hearted efforts within the citizens sector to apply existing law, than any application of administrative fee or other limiting provisions of the law, WITTING, W.A (2002).

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Implementasi Value For Money, Input Output Outcome dan Best Value Sebagai Alat Pengukuran Kinerja Sektor Publik

Jurnal Ilmiah Bisnis dan Ekonomi Asia ◽

10.32812/jibeka.v11i1.27 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 72-82

Author(s):

Kariyoto Kariyoto

Keyword(s):

Input Output ◽

Value For Money ◽

Best Value

Pengukuran organisasi sektor publik menjadi penting untuk mengetahui tingkat pencapain pelayanan kepada masyarakat. Kinerja organisasi sektor publik dapat diukur menggunakan alat dan indikator yang sesuai. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui konsep nilai waktu uang, masukan keluaran hasil, nilai terbaik sebagai indikator pengukuran kinerja sektor publik. Penelitian ini berlokasi di Perpustakaan Universitas Brawijaya Malang. Jenis penelitian melalui studi perpustakaan. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan observasi dan dokumentasi buku yang berhubungan dengan kinerja organisasi sektor publik. Analisis data digunakan reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan atau verifikasi data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai waktu uang, masukan keluaran hasil dan nilai terbaik dapat dipakai sebagai alat pengukuran kinerja organisasi sektor publik.

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Best Value Approach in Public Procurement: Improving ‘Best’ through Enhanced Preparation Phase

Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value ◽

10.37265/japiv.v10i1.23 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 66-83

Author(s):

Frank Steller

Keyword(s):

Public Procurement ◽

Customer Relationships ◽

Theory Building ◽

The Public ◽

Innovative Method ◽

Best Value ◽

Preparation Phase ◽

The Impact

The Best Value Approach (BVA) offers an innovative method to get the most out of Supplier-Customer Relationships (SCRs). This paper argues that the preparation phase should be enhanced when applying BVA in the context of public procurement. Literature on SCRs learns how successful relationships are governed bilaterally during execution. This literature also describes which processes are taking place prior to contracting. Here, the concepts of this literature areapplied to analyses the specific public procurement context. The impact of this context is, that the tender process is governed unilaterally. Further, BVA - as applied in public procurement - is viewed through the lenses of the SCR literature. Although BVA partly leads to bilateral governance, the impact of the public procurement context remains. For practitioners wanting to improve BVA’s effect in public procurement, the paper offers an enhancement of the approach. For theory building, the analysis leads to a further differentiation of the concept of governance. For regulators, it offers something to consider: focus on principles or rules?

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Five dilemmas in public procurement

Journal of Public Procurement ◽

10.1108/jopp-15-02-2015-b003 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 177-207 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Clifford P. McCue ◽

Eric Prier ◽

David Swanson

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Public Procurement ◽

Flexible Structures ◽

Government Reform ◽

The Public ◽

Best Value ◽

Competing Demands ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Operational Constraints ◽

And Control

Procurement systems in democratic governments across the globe face competing demands, conflated values and goals, and are being called upon to address societies "wicked" problems under the rubric of government "reform." As a result, government purchasing professionals are being challenged to develop new flexible structures and processes that devolve purchasing responsibility, yet maintain accountability and control; limit the opportunity for fraud/mismanagement while reducing operational constraints; increase economic efficiency while satisfying political demands for minority/local/small and women owned business participation; increase open and transparent competition while achieving best value; and applying best practices while confronting legal limitations. Essentially these dilemmas have placed public procurement at the forefront of government reform efforts. The current study delineates the nature of five dilemmas that purchasing practitioners face, and the implications of these dilemmas for purchasing in the public sphere are explored. Given the complexity of these dilemmas, procurement professionals will be continually called upon to balance these inherent tensions with little guidance from policymakers or elected officials.

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