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Municipal Public Procurement, Strategy and Sustainable Development

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Strategic use of public procurement in promoting social impact; Sustainable public procurement; Sustainable public strategy

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Municipal Public Procurement is the mechanism used by governmental organizations purchases products and services to enable the operation of their activities and the provision of services to the population.

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The central theme of this entry is the potential of the use of purchasing power, especially in the scope of municipal public power and its impact on sustainable development. It is an exercise of combining operational activities with strategic objectives of public policies propitiating a repercussion in the dynamics of the local society perceived in the sustainable development.

Public procurement is embedded in supply management and represents one of the pillars within a public institution, both operationally and strategically, in view of budgetary and financial resources, according to Batista and De Varge Maldonado (2008). With...

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Publio, M.C.M., dos Santos, S.M., de Aquino Cabral, A.C., Machado, M.V.V., Fernandes, C.C.C. (2020). Municipal Public Procurement, Strategy and Sustainable Development. 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_3948-1

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