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Contract Management Capacity

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Synonyms

Contracting out; New public management

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Contracting out:

A mode of privatization where governments seek to delegate a private entity to manage some public services and operations while retaining ownership and overall control.

Contract management capacity:

This includes all activities by public administration that involves dealing with a private provider to outsource a service that was initially performed by in-house public team such as bidding, designing a contract, measuring performance, consultations, and collaborative management.

Contestability:

This refers to the possibility of replacing a private provider with another supplier in case of increase costs or significant quality deterioration in service delivery, hence the cost of entry and exit of a provider from a contract reduces the contestability of the service.

Contract Management Capacity: The Case of the UK Public Services

Competitive tendering and contracting (CTC) is a mode of supplying services through a...

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  1. Research Fellow, School of Economics, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

    Shimaa Elkomy

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Elkomy, S. (2018). Contract Management Capacity. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3682-1

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