"The real problem in Indonesia is that there are flaws in the system, the procurement process, for example, that give people the chance to steal," Mr. Lukman said, mentioning obscure procurement lists with padded prices.
Unless companies carefully specify the parameters of a procurement order, for example, it makes no sense to invite tenders in an electronic marketplace.
Cities' procurement process, for example, typically involves requests for proposal, which are confusing for first-time bidders and, as notes Rockefeller president Raj Shah, are rarely written to solicit innovative solutions.
Such progress has also been made possible by the establishment of global financing mechanisms, including the GAVI, and the important role played by regional procurement mechanisms, for example the Revolving Fund for Vaccine Procurement in the Region of the Americas.
A key component of sustainable procurement and supply chain management involves building the capacity of in-country stakeholders to take responsibility for overseeing logistics and financing procurements.,, For example, commodities were largely funded and managed by USAID prior to graduation from family planning programs.
Second, dedicated procurement policies are hardly free market and could only be really justified in the face of extreme distortions in procurement practice caused, for example, by discrimination.
E-procurement giant Ariba, for example, started by offering software to procurement professionals who would push their requests-for-proposals out to vendors, who would then join the network.
But Evenett says there has been a flurry of more subtle manoeuvres: restricting public procurement to domestic firms, for example, or quietly tightening regulations to raise the bar against imports.
I will use Rhodes' theory when trying to understand and analyse the actors involved in planning a public transport procurement process, by asking, for example: How do they exchange resources?
