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Compulsory Competitive Tendering

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Public Sector Economics

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Public Services should be delivered efficiently. Government itself need not be a large scale provider. Market testing the delivery of services, and contracting out where appropriate, brings commercial disciplines to bear and stimulates private sector activity (1994 White Paper, Competitiveness: Helping Business to Win, Cm 2563, London: HMSO, p. 17).

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Bailey, S.J. (1995). Compulsory Competitive Tendering. In: Public Sector Economics. Macmillan Texts in Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24004-3_15

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