Contracting for Public Services
“Contracting for Public Services” by Carsten Greve, published by Routledge in 2008, offers a comprehensive introduction to the contracting process within public services. This edition spans 204 pages and is presented in English. The text addresses key phases of contracting and the essential skills managers need for effective implementation, including policy formulation, strategic purchasing, and market understanding.
Readers will find a thorough exploration of various aspects of contract management, illustrated with case studies from OECD countries. The book introduces a new theoretical ‘contract management model’ and a ‘mature contract model,’ while examining the mechanisms and norms that shape government contracting practices. It serves as a valuable resource for students of public management and public service managers, focusing on the intricacies of service provision regulation and the role of consumers in the contracting process.
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Insightful and comprehensive and covering new subjects like globalization and IT, this text, international in its approach, provides a thorough introduction to the key phases of the contracting process and the skills required by managers in its implementation.
These include:
- policy for contracting
- strategic purchasing
- understanding markets
- communicating the contracting decision
- designing and drafting the contract
- the role of the consumer
- the regulation of service provision
Illustrated throughout with practitioner case-studies from a range of OECD countries, this book presents an important new theoretical ‘contract management model’ and a ‘mature contract model’, and explores the mechanisms, formal rules and informal norms that influence the way governments contract for public services. This book is essential reading for all students of public management and all public service managers.
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