1st Edition

Incentives In Procurement Contracting

By Jim Leitzel Copyright 1993
    174 Pages
    by Routledge

    174 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume presents a nontechnical treatment of issues that arise in procurement contracting, with an emphasis on major weapons systems procurement. Employing the economic theory of agency as their analytical framework, contributors assess the incentives that arise, for both buyers and sellers, in different contractual settings. Procurement contra

    Introduction -- Defense Procurement: Politics, Management, and Incentives -- Inefficiently Low Production Rates in Defense Procurement: An Economic Analysis -- Incentive-Based Procurement Oversight by Protest -- Procurement and Quality Monitoring -- The Provision of Quality in Procurement -- The Choice of What to Procure -- Defense Procurement with Unverifiable Performance -- Licensing and Technology Transfer -- Incentives for Cost Reduction in Defense Procurement -- Defense Procurement and Economic Theory

    Biography

    Jim Leitzel