- Outlines public procurement throughout the contracting cycle including initial planning, evaluating proposals, contractor selection, contract administration, contract closeout, and auditing.
- Provides the public procurement officer with much-needed guidance on contracting documents, management tools, and processes for addressing negative influences on government contracting
- Incorporates the results of a new nationwide study into best public procurement practice, as well as recent examples of real-world procurement fraud cases, offering recommendations for procurement practices to deter fraud.
- Offers the instructor and the reader useful public procurement tools such as requests for proposals, pro forma contracts, proposal evaluation forms, sole source justification and approval forms, as well as PowerPoint presentations on a website accompanying the book.
William Sims Curry is President of WSC Consulting, a small business specializing in consulting on government procurement. Curry served as an Air Force systems procurement officer and was employed in purchasing management for prime contractors on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, DOE's Positron Electron Project, and numerous DoD programs. He has authored three books and numerous articles and research papers on government procurement. Curry is a Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) and a Fellow by the National Contract Management Association (NCMA).
Title: Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement (ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy)
Author: Sims Curry, William
ISBN: 9781032394428
Binding:
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
Number of Pages: 330
Weight: 0.5952 kg