Chapter 6: Public procurement

The links below include all the resources mentioned in the ‘Further Watching and Reading’ section at the end of the chapter plus some other relevant resources I have found since the manuscript was finished.

Contracting for Public Services by Carston Greve (2008)

Rethinking Public Service Delivery: Managing with External Providers by Alford & Flynn(2012).

The Institute for Government’s resources on outsourcing policy

Public procurement and innovation: a systematic literature review by Kundu, James & Rigby (2020).

The UK Government’s sourcing and consulting playbooks

Strategies for Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Contracting by Behn and Kant (1999)

The European PPP Expertise Centre

Baker’s 2003 article, Investigating Enron as a Public Private Partnership

New Models of Public Procurement: A Tool for Sustainable Recovery by ACCA (2020)

How to Procure a Consultant in the Public Sector by me

Harvard’s Program on Negotiation’s daily blog

Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury & Patton

Getting to Yes in Challenging Times, a video lecture by William Ury of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation