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Public procurement is continuing to evolve both conceptually and organizationally. That evolution accelerated since the 1990s as governments at all levels came under increasing pressures to “do more with less.” Indeed, all governmental entities of rich and poor countries are struggling in the face of unrelenting budget constraints; government downsizing; public demand for increased transparency in public procurement; and greater concerns about efficiency, fairness and equity. Additionally, public procurement professionals have faced a constantly changing environment typified by rapidly emerging technologies, increasing product choice, environmental concerns, and the complexities of international and regional trading agreements. Further, policy makers have increasingly used public procurement as a tool to achieve socioeconomic goals (Thai 2007; Albano et al. 2013).
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Trade-off analysis is more complicated and more difficult in the pre-contracting stage than in the contracting stage. Indeed, in the pre-contracting stage, procurement officials have to consider all core principles and intermediate objectives. During the contracting stage, the procurement officials are concerned with three main objectives: time, cost and performance as many procurement objectives such as competition, fair, equal treatment, etc. have been achieved in the pre-contracting stage.
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Thai, K.V. (2017). Global Public Procurement Theories and Practices: An Introduction. In: Thai, K. (eds) Global Public Procurement Theories and Practices. Public Administration, Governance and Globalization, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49280-3_1
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