Procurement and public spending: amplification and emergence of issues arising from COVID-19

Barbara Allen

Chapter 7 in Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19, 2024, pp 86-98 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: COVID-19 drove home the known issues associated with public procurement; its vulnerability to corruption, that innovation can emerge from urgency, and also that international mechanisms for procurement of health products such as vaccines have demonstrable weaknesses. This chapter looks at strategic public procurement as a major public management idea and explores the impact of the Covid-19 effect, drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand, the United States and elsewhere. The chapter also explores the role of strategic procurement in planning for infrastructure, where COVID-19 amplified known weaknesses in contracting capacity and capability. The chapter considers the broad ramifications of what has been demonstrated from the COVID-19 period, what has been learned and what this means for public management.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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