scholarly journals What Influences Adoption of Green Award Criteria in a Public Contract? An Empirical Analysis of 2018 European Public Procurement Contract Award Notices

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1261
Author(s):  
Chunling Yu ◽  
Toru Morotomi ◽  
Haiping Yu
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Public Contracting ◽  
Procurement Contract ◽  
Green Public Procurement

Green public procurement (GPP) is a policy tool aiming to achieve environmental protection and resource reservation via public procurement. After decades of adaptation, what promotes and hinders its uptake in public contracting remains difficult to discern. This research explores factors that influence the adoption of green award criteria, covering features of procurement procedures, purchasers, tenderers, and the business sectors through empirical analysis of Probit regression combined with a fixed term method. The data is contract award notices (CAN) from 33 countries in Europe in 2018. Our findings suggest that framework agreements, the medical products sector, the health and social services sector, and the business services sector are negatively correlated with whether a contract is green. On the other hand, the contract value, Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)coverage, joint procurement, competitive dialogue, negotiation with competition (with a call for competition), restricted procedure, transport equipment sector, and food sector can positively correlate with green contracts, or these factors increase the possibility of a contract being green. Explicit explanations on these relations are provided. This research identifies factors relating with and influencing the application of green award criteria in public contracts, which would inform public sectors on efficient resources allocation in terms of increasing green public procurement performance.

scholarly journals The State of Judicial Scrutiny of Public Contracting in New Zealand and Canada

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
David Mullan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Action ◽  
Public Contracting ◽  
Judicial Scrutiny

This article evaluates the varying ways in which the courts of New Zealand and Canada respond to arguments that government procurement exercises are subject to the principles and remedies of public law. While conceding that context is critical and that there are many, often competing considerations that are relevant in the evaluation of such arguments, the author contends that the courts in both countries should at least on occasion be open to the availability of public law remedies for misfired government procurement exercises, and, more importantly, whether by judicial review or civil action, to the deployment of public law principles in the assessment of the procedural and substantive components of government procurement. More generally, the author warns against the movement in both countries in the direction of the assimilation of public procurement within existing principles and remedies of private tendering law.

A systems approach for green public procurement implementation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-311
Author(s):  
Conghu Wang ◽  
Yuhua Qiao ◽  
Xiaoming Li
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Green Public Procurement ◽  
Multiple Case

Purpose This paper aims to identify important factors in green public procurement (GPP) implementation and then to clarify how these factors affect GPP implementation. Design/methodology/approach The authors applied the Delphi method first and then conducted a focused and constrained multiple case study at 18 government procurement centers across China. Findings The authors identified four clusters of factors for successful GPP implementation: more clear, consistent and operational policy goals; a nation-wide green procurement campaign to enhance social capital and cultural resources; promoting staff’s ethics, professionalism, capacity and knowledge; and establishing checks and balances among organizations involved in the whole purchasing process. Social implications GPP can significantly improve environmental protection and sustainable development. Originality/value Based on key insights from systems theory and agency theory, the authors emphasize that GPP implementation must take down its own functional silos and adopt a process approach across organizational tiers to synchronize human resource based and inter-organizational capabilities into a unified whole through information sharing, communications and collaboration.

scholarly journals Analisis Posisi Pembiayaan Per Sektor Ekonomi pada Perbankan Syariah di Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Aqidah Asri Suwarsi
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Optimal Portfolio ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Financing Risk ◽  
Funding Risk

<p>The purpose of this study is to find a combination of financing portfolio that produces the smallest financing risk based on investor preference and based on the amount of financing in the economic sector at Sharia Commercial Bank. The research method is analytical descriptive research using secondary data obtained from a publication of Bank Indonesia (Statistik Perbankan Syariah) covering monthly data of financing position of 10 (ten) economic sector during January 2011-March 2014 for BUS / UUS category. Analyzer used by Markowitz Method. The results obtained from the research show BUS / UUS in Indonesia there is a combination of different economic sectors in the distribution of financing with the smallest financing risk. Optimal portfolio of financing distribution based on BUS risk preference to economic sector can be obtained if BUS distributes to Economic Sector of Business Services, then Transportation, Warehousing and Communication sector, then Construct. The smallest optimal risk portfolio of financing disbursements based on economic sector in Indonesia focuses on the business sector of the business economy, then the social services sector, then the mining sector.</p><p>Keywords: Sharia Bank Financing, Economic Sector Financing, Optimal Portfolio, Shariah Bank Preferences Minimum Funding Risk, Markowitz Method</p>

HARMONISING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE SADC

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-109
Author(s):  
Stephen De la Harpe
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Regional Competition ◽  
Model Law ◽  
Opening Up

The promotion of international trade is seen as one of the important instruments to ensure development in developing nations and regions. The history of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the drafting of many regional and similar international trade agreements are evidence of this. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is no exception.1 It is therefore strange that many states that are members of the WTO and actively encourage the opening up of international borders to free trade do not include public procurement2 in such free trade arrangements. This is particularly evident in developing states. If the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which is a plurilateral agreement, is considered it is clear that many states do not wish to open their internal markets to competition in the public procurement sphere. It is therefore not surprising that public procurement has been described as the last rampart of state protectionism (Ky, 2012). Public procurement is an important segment of trade in any country (Arrowsmith & Davies, 1998). It is estimated that public procurement represents between 10% and 15% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of developed countries and up to 25% of GDP in developing states (Wittig, 1999). Unfortunately, governments often expect private industry to open up national markets for international competition but do not lead the way. Except for the limited use of pooled procurement,3 no specific provision is at present made for the harmonisation and integration of public procurement in the SADC. In view of the proximity of the member states, the interdependency of their economies and the benefits that can be derived from opening up their boundaries to regional competition in public procurement, the possibility of harmonisation and deeper integration in this sphere needs to be given more attention. The importance of public procurement in international trade and regional integration is twofold: first, it forms a substantial part of trade with the related economic and developmental implications; secondly, it is used by governments as an instrument to address socio-economic issues. Public procurement spending is also important because of its potential influence on human rights, including aspects such as the alleviation of poverty, the achievement of acceptable labour standards and environmental goals, and similar issues (McCrudden, 1999). In this article the need to harmonise public procurement in the SADC in order to open up public procurement to regional competition, some of the obstacles preventing this, and possible solutions are discussed. Reference is made to international instruments such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Model Law on Public Procurement and the GPA. In particular, the progress made in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) with regard to the harmonisation of public procurement, which was based on the Model Law, will be used to suggest possible solutions to the problem of harmonising public procurement in the SADC.

Standardization as a Tool of Achieving Sustainable Development of Organizations of Social Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
N.L. Solovieva ◽  
◽  
I.V. Chudinovskikh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
International Companies

The article discusses the management of sustainable development of organizations using standardization as one of the tools of the quality economy. Particular attention is paid to the existing practice of Russian and international companies building strategic goals and objectives in accordance with the UN SDGs. The connection between standardization and sustainable development of the organization, in particular organizations of the social services sector, is shown.

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