A Legal Guide to Purchasing and Contracting for North Carolina Local Governments

A Legal Guide to Purchasing and Contracting for North Carolina Local Governments
Author: Frayda S. Bluestein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 115
Release: 1998
Genre: Government purchasing
ISBN: 9781560113300

Provides answers to questions frequently asked by local government officials about local government contracts, competitive bidding requirements, purchasing organization and policies, and ethics and conflicts of interest. A convenient ôDollar Thresholdsö chart is also included.

Purchasing Contracts

Purchasing Contracts
Author: Graham Fuller
Publisher: Spiramus Press Ltd
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1904905935

Purchasing Contracts will assist those who work with contracts for the procurement of goods and services in the UK. This second edition contains additional chapters, including one on the special UK rules governing purchasing by public bodies and utilities. The subjects of misrepresentation, exemption clauses, and electronic contracting are among those that have been updated and covered in more detail. The bill on bribery, currently going through Parliament, is also dealt with.

Bid Protests

Bid Protests
Author: Andrew E. Shipley
Publisher: ABA American Bar Association
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Government purchasing
ISBN: 9781641058674

"A guide to the three primary forums where most federal procurement decisions are contested"--

Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies

Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies
Author: William Sims Curry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317221028

This second edition of Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies provides state-of-the-art tools for best practice in the procurement of services at state and local levels, from initial stages through to completion. Including lively case studies and research conducted with state and local agencies across the United States, this book provides management advice and tips on compliance to reduce costs, select the best-qualified contractors, manage contractors’ performance, and prevent corruption and waste. Utilizing the results of new research in all fifty states, author William Sims Curry offers updated best-practice documents, methodologies, and templates including: a Request for Proposal (RFP), a scorecard for proposals to select the best-qualified contractor, a toolkit for meeting socioeconomic contracting goals without compromising price, quality, or on-time delivery, and a Model Services Contract (MSC). Special consideration is given to obtaining services and products in states of emergency. Several additional resources for practitioners are available online, including sample contracts and a straightforward, inexpensive tool for tracking contractors’ progress and cost management. The roadmap and templates contained in this book and available online to readers will prove essential to state and local government agency contracting professionals and other officials and employees called upon to participate in the drafting of solicitations, writing sole source justifications, writing scopes of work, serving on advance contract planning and source selection teams, recommending award of contracts, or assisting in the management of those contracts.

Navigating Government Procurement

Navigating Government Procurement
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Government purchasing
ISBN: 9780314199980

Navigating Government Procurement is an authoritative, insiders perspective on the strategic thinking behind drafting and negotiating government contracts with vendors. Featuring state and municipal directors of procurement as well as procurement attorneys from across the country, this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the challenges unique to purchasing goods and services on behalf of government agencies and entities. These leaders articulate the finer points of the procurement process and the best practices required for working with government contractors, from soliciting bids and complying with regulatory requirements to setting enterprise-wide standards for frequently purchased commodities. Additionally, the authors discuss the impact of politics and the economy on government procurement procedures while offering advice on maintaining ethical operation standards and working with agency budgets. The different niches represented enable readers to get inside some of the great minds in government today, as these experts reveal the secrets and challenges behind how the government obtains goods and services.

The Contract Negotiation Handbook

The Contract Negotiation Handbook
Author: Stephen Guth
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007-12-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1435706390

Many books have been written on negotiation tactics and a few books have been written on contract drafting, but no book has combined the two disciplines into one-until now. Resulting from over 10 years of actual negotiation experience as both buyer and seller, author Stephen Guth offers insight into a world of negotiations and contracts that few ever see. This book isn't a feel-good book on win-win negotiations. It's an insider's view into real life negotiation tactics and ploys. Readers will learn how to use negotiation tactics such as the Columbo, the Price Slice and Dice, and the Signature Limit Lasso. Readers will also learn how to spot and counter vendor ploys such as the Pop-Tart, Mirroring, and the Only Game in Town. To put it all together, readers are instructed on contract drafting tricks such as Expressly Implied Warranties, the Endless Indemnification, and the Unlimited Limitation of Liability. Readers will never look at contracts the same way again.

The Release 12 Primer - Shining a Light on the Release 12 World

The Release 12 Primer - Shining a Light on the Release 12 World
Author: Barbara Matthews
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2008-07-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0615238440

If you've been thinking about installing or upgrading to Release 12 but need to understand more about why you should do so, this is the book for you. For functional users, The Release 12 Primer highlights the modules that have changed the most. Read about Oracle's Global Business Release, Master Data Management, MOAC and the Swan Interface. Then see how it all comes together for the Financials and Procurement product families, Supply Chain Management, CRM, and Projects. And if you've always wanted to understand more about the underlying technology, but found all the terminology too complex to sort through, this book covers the technical architecture, security issues, and even Fusion, targeting both functional and technical readers. "The Release 12 Primer provides the real story on the latest version of the Oracle E-Business Suite and its technical underpinnings. If you only buy one book on Oracle E-Business Release 12, buy this one." - Floyd M. Teter, Systems Engineer, JPL