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Competition and Performance in Government Procurement: Relevance of Market Liberalization and International Benchmarks

William E. Kovacic George Washington University/King’s College London National Workshop on the Revised WTO Government Procurement Agreement Brasilia, 2-3 May 2018

This Morning’s Agenda

• Public Procurement: Significance
• Lessons from the GPA Process
• Market Liberalization
• International Benchmarking
• Caveat: Personal Views Only
• Contact: wkovacic@law.gwu.edu

Resources

• Anderson & Kovacic, Competition Policy and

International Trade Liberalisation: Essential Complements to Ensure Good Performance in Public Procurement Markets, 2009 Public Procurement Law Review 43

• Anderson, Kovacic & Mueller, Ensuring Integrity

and Competition in Public Procurement, in The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Challenge and Reform 67 (Sue Arrowsmith & Robert Anderson, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011)

Government Procurement: Why Care?

• Budgetary Importance
• Vital Social Services

–E.g., Transport, education, health, water

• Competitiveness, Growth, Development

–Enabling conditions: costs, productivity

• Economic Disadvantage: Mobility
• Governance and Political Legitimacy

Lessons from the GPA Process

• Global Learning
• Superior Techniques
• Note: Complementary Initiatives

–Example: Free Trade Agreements

Market Liberalization

• Competition Stimulant
• Improved Economic Performance
• Collusion Antidote
• Better Governance

International Benchmarks

• Learning and Experimentation
• Performance Measures

–Process –Outcomes

• Evaluation