Procurement

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Example in practice

 

The city of Buenos Aires found a very wide dispersion in the prices paid for basic, identical products to supply its hospital network, such as needles, syringes, intravenous solutions, x-ray film and sanitarymaterials, raising suspicion that corruption had tainted the procurement process.62

 

Relevant links

—— Transparency International: Procurement Handbook.

http://www.transparency.org/publications/publications/other/procurement_handbook

 

—— U4 Theme: Corruption in Public Procurement.

http://www.u4.no/themes/procurement/main.cfm

 

—— UN Procurement Capacity Development Centre.

http://www.unpcdc.org/english/pcdc-home.aspx

 

61 U4 Theme: Corruption in Public Procurement

http://www.u4.no/themes/procurement/main.cfm.

 

Transparency International, Procurement Handbook

http://www.transparency.org/publications/publications/other/procurement_handbook.

 

D Brinkerhoff and A Goldsmith, ‘Clientelism, Patrimonialism and Democratic Governance: An Overview and Framework for

Assessment and Programming’, Abt Associates prepared for USAID, 2002. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pnacr426.pdf.

 

62 Brief, ‘The Impact of Information and Accountability on Hospital Procurement Corruption in Argentina and Bolivia’

http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/?3027=the-impact-of-information-and-accountability-on

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