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CHAPTER 1: International Public Procurement: Concepts and Practices @ Page 1 CHAPTER 2: Framework for Assessing the Acquisition Function at Federal Agencies @ Page 27 CHAPTER 3: Assessing Federal Procurement Reform: Has the Procurement Pendulum Stopped Swinging? @ Page 67 CHAPTER 4: Analytical Framework for the Management and Reform of Public Procurement @ Page 87 CHAPTER 5: EU Directives as Anticorruption Measures: Excluding Corruption-Convicted Tenderers from Pblic Procurement Contracts @ Page 105 CHAPTER 6: Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: A Tool for Effective Governance of the Public Sector and Poverty Reduction @ Page 131 CHAPTER 7: Simulation Approach to In- House Versus Contracted-Out Cost Comparisons @ Page 157 CHAPTER 8: Public Procurement Organization: A Comparison of Purchasing's Organizational Roles and Responsibilities in the Public and Private Sectors @ Page 175 CHAPTER 9: Service Sourcing @ Page 187 CHAPTER 10: How Many Vendors Does it Take to Screw Down a Price? A Primer on Competition in Procurement @ Page 211 CHAPTER 11: Public Procurement in the United Nations System @ Page 233 CHAPTER 12: EC Regime on Public Procurement @ Page 251 CHAPTER 13: U.S. Federal Government Procurement: Organizational Structure, Process and Current Issues @ Page 291 CHAPTER 14: Public Procurement in Germany @ Page 307 CHAPTER 15: China's Government Procurement Policy and Institutional Framework: History, Structure, and Operation @ Page 323 CHAPTER 16: Overview of the Government Procurement System in South Africa @ Page 357 CHAPTER 17: Public Procurement in Cambodia @ Page 375 CHAPTER 18: Procurement Systems in Uganda @ Page 393 CHAPTER 19: Public Procurement in Post-Transitional Context: The Case of Estonia @ Page 409 CHAPTER 20: Procurement Process in the Public Sector: An International Perspective @ Page 427 CHAPTER 21: Key Issues in E-Procurement: Procurement Implementation and Operation in the Public Sector @ Page 445 CHAPTER 22: Factors Influencing E-Procurement Usage @ Page 459 CHAPTER 23: Facilitators of Public E-Procurement: Lessons Learned from the U.K., U.S., and Australian Initiatives @ Page 473 CHAPTER 24: Evaluation of Public E- Procurement Services Accessibility: A Multicriteria Approach @ Page 491 CHAPTER 25: World Bank E-Procurement for the Selection of Consultants: Challenges and Lessons Learned @ Page 511 CHAPTER 26: E-Procurement Management in State Governments: Diffusion of E-Procurement Practices and its Determinants @ Page 527 CHAPTER 27: Best Practices: Using Spend Analysis to Help Agencies Take a More Strategic Approach to Procurement @ Page 543 CHAPTER 28: Contract Negotiations @ Page 563 CHAPTER 29: Controlling Services Process Performance with Statistical Process Control @ Page 579 CHAPTER 30: Fixed Asset Disposal: Methods and Strategies for Disposing of Personal Property in the Public Sector @ Page 591 CHAPTER 31: Enhancing Use of Past Performance as a Source Selection Criterion @ Page 613 CHAPTER 32: Ban-on-Negotiation in Tender Procedures: Undermining the Best Value for Money @ Page 631 CHAPTER 33: Bid Protests: Theory and Practice @ Page 659 CHAPTER 34: Decision Technological Foundations of Public Procurement Processes @ Page 673 CHAPTER 35: Pricing Strategies and Cost Analysis in Public Procurement @ Page 689 CHAPTER 36: Public-Private Partnerships @ Page 703 CHAPTER 37: Market's Response to Contract Award Announcements: Government Versus Coporate Contracts @ Page 725 CHAPTER 38: Economic Context of Public Procurement @ Page 737 CHAPTER 39: Offset Policy Design in International Procurement @ Page 749 CHAPTER 40: Regression Approach for Estimating Procurement Cost @ Page 763 CHAPTER 41: Procurement Design: Lessons From Economic Theory and Illustrations from the Dutch Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Projects @ page 779